I read in the news the other day that a man who "identifies as" (i.e. read: "pretends to be") a woman, has won a women's weight lifting competition in New Zealand. As a result, people all over the place are crying "foul" and saying that he (I will not call him a "she") should not be allowed to compete with women because it is unfair (can you say "duh?"). Supposedly, it is fine for people to choose their gender in every other area of society, but not in sports. I guess sports are just too sacred to allow gender relativism (!).
It is truly amazing that many of these same people want gender to be untouched in numerous other areas in life. They do not want gender to matter in marriage; they do not want it to matter in the home; they do not want it to matter in the workplace; and now it appears that many do not want it to matter in the military. Pick and choose where to apply your self-seeking ideas and eventually something is going to collide. God designed the universe to work in a certain way, and we can only try to ignore that for so long before something goes awry.
Well now, it is quite revealing that someone has finally said there is a limit to relativistic gender ideology. I wonder if someone is going to yell "foul" at those who do not want him to compete with the women? Can you hear them yelling: "He should be allowed to do whatever he wants since he decides for himself who he is and what he does!"? Relativism and other self-determined ideologies always destroy themselves. Sadly, it often takes a horrific disaster for many people to notice it, and some girly-guy winning a sports competition is probably not enough to make people reconsider.
I am not denying that there are many things that women can do just as well as men; there are some things that women do better than men. The problem is that we have been ignoring the fact that "doing just as well or better" is not the proper criteria to use in determining "who should be doing what". Just because you can do something does not mean that you should do it. Scientists can invent more efficient ways to kill people in a war; that does not mean that they should do so. Women might be just as good at a certain field of work as men are, but if that is the only question we use to determine right and wrong, then we will end up with the dilemma of gender-ideology that has hit us today. Neutrality in societal roles leads to neutrality in sexual roles (ad nauseam).
The proper question to ask is, therefore, what has God ordained for us? He has revealed it to us in many ways and times. I suggest that everyone go read the Catechism of Trent and see how it defines the roles in society for men and women--even the most conservative of Catholics today might be a bit surprised that this is still official Catholic dogma! I could expound it here, but I will let the Church speak for herself. When we remove the divine guidelines for society, then we can head off in many directions; the worst of which is relativism.
I know, of absolute certainty, that Jesus will win in the end, and that He will conquer all His enemies (cf. 1 Cor 15:24), including the gender neutral nightmare that we are experiencing today. I also suspect that before He fully destroys this satanic kind of thinking, that we will see more and more "train wrecks". The more we allow people to "choose their gender", the more we will see massive complications in society (even worse than which symbol to put on the bathroom door). Let us each brace ourselves for the repercussions, for we will likely experience the after shocks of most of them. Let us also stand fast in our faith. Let us teach our children what it means to be male and female according to God's standards, and let us never allow the world convince us to deny eternal truth.
