As we close out Pride Month 2024 I ask the question of whether adding gender pronouns to signatures and profiles is a good thing? Individuals do this to send the message that they and their company or organization is inclusive of everyone and acknowledges gender diversity.
A different opinion
For several decades of my life I was confused regarding my gender and when I was presenting as a woman being a man I knew I was not a woman. I learned that "I have the right to do anything, ... but not everything is beneficial". *
Acknowledging men as women and women as men in a signature block re-enforces gender confusion in many individuals!
Men and Women are immutably different!
Women can bear children and men can impregnate women and no amount of pronouns can change that reality. In general, women tend to be the care givers of children and men are the providers and their protectors. This is the reality of humanity across all human cultures. Denying it is delusional.
For thousands of years personal pronouns such as (She/Her) and (He/Him) were tied to biological sex of an individual since genetically there are two sexes that are known to be male and female.
Biological men and women have many differences such as body composition, fat distribution, muscular strength, physical endurance, cardiovascular system, sensory perception, bone density, skin thickness, nutritional needs and even brain structure and function.
PERSONAL STORY
For much of my life I suffered from Gender Confusion. I believe my confusion started when my father failed to teach me what it meant to be a man and I identified more with my mother. This was exacerbated when I was exposed to pornography turning my disfunction into an addiction. No one did me any favors by affirming me as a woman. My wife shared the truth with me but I was not listening. Then in 2020 my life began to change due to better choices.
I read the book “Irreversible Damage” by Abigail Shrier and “What is a Woman” by Matt Walsh. I was appalled at what I was seeing in my own life and what it is doing to our children. I began listening to “Focus on the Family” podcasts on my phone App. Through this I learning what it means to be a husband to my wife and a father to my children. My phone became a tool of my redemption instead of destruction. In 2023 I ran for the Miamisburg School board out of concern for my children. During the campaign I came clean about my past in a post entitled “The Truth About My Past”. I am on a journey of freedom from this addiction and experience a freedom that I never had before.
BOTTOM LINE
Affirming individuals in their gender confusion is harmful and a bad practice.
* 1 Corinthians 10:23a New International Version
Thank you for this Scott. I have a child who was engaged to her girlfriend back years ago. She now only exclusively dates men. She had a friend in Middleschool who would have sleepovers with her girlfriend that her mom knew as her "best friend". She eventually married a man and now, being divorced, only dates men. I have a niece who was "gay" in college but is now married to a man with a son of her own. I have a gay nephew who has been happily married to his husband for probably almost a decade. I have another nephew who identifies as gay. One of my best friends is gay and has been since he was 16yo. …