Insane

We have a word that carries a heavy burden. "Insane" comes across as offensive and unkind. It simply means "not sane" meaning "not rational." It means "not in accordance with reason or logic." On Saturday I included a story from Canada:

A statement by a Canadian Member of Parliament got quite a reaction this week when they offered a new acronym for "LGBT." The acronym is "MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+".

It got me to thinking. Have you considered how ... irrational the whole thing is? Think with me about it. At the beginning there was "heterosexual" and "homosexual." The prefixes tell the story. "Hetero" is "other" and "homo" is "same." "Heterodoxy" is having differences in doctrines or ideas. "Heterogeneous" means "composed of different elements." "Homochromatic" means something has the same colors while "heterochromatic" means they have different colors. Not hard to understand. So "heterosexual" means "sex with the opposite sex" and "homosexual" means "sex with the same sex." This isn't rocket science. Or ... is it?

Enter the "LGBT" acronym. Standing for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender," no one seemed to notice it was confusing at the start. You see, "gay" was co-opted from "happy" to "homosexual" over time, but primarily in the 20th century. It referred to homosexual men and women. So "LGBT" offered us "homosexual ladies and homosexual men" like the gender mattered. Okay ... fine ... except "bisexual" suggests BOTH "heterosexual" and "homosexual." (And no one has yet to urge the government to allow "bisexuals" to have the right to marry BOTH.) And the explicit meaning of "transgender" is ... changing gender. That is, gender is ... today's term ... fluid. "Nonbinary," they call it ... and insist we all recognize it. In which case "lesbian" and "gay" (where "gay" already overlaps "lesbian") become moot and should simply be "homosexual." But ... no. We must continue to define everyone in a binary way as they deny the idea.

To further push this irrational perception, the entire "transsexual" thing seems not to notice that it is still operating on a "binary gender" foundation. When a biological male decides he's supposed to be a female, he'll undergo a variety of procedures to become ... "female." Not "in between." Not "whatever I feel like." A biological female who identifies as male takes on the gender expression of males as if they're ... not binary. They're trying to be male. Binary. Not one and the other, but one or the other. If gender was irrelevant, a biological female who wanted to identify as male could just ... identify as male without doing anything else. They don't ... ever. It's similar to the whole radical feminism thing. In an effort to prove how females are superior to males, they take on all the characteristics of males that they say they hate and prove ... that they're just like males ... as they "affirm" feminism. Contrary to logic.

In the real world of male and female, established by God at the beginning (Gen 1:27), humans are ... binary. It's unavoidable. Changing terms, altering appearances, adding letters to incoherent acronyms ... none of that changes the facts. Biology tells us that males produce sperm and females produce eggs and no amount of "procedures" changes that. History tells us that a phalloplasty doesn't give a biological female sperm production and vaginoplasty doesn't allow a biological male to give birth. Biology matters. So does God's word. But we persist, don't we? And consider the insanity "enlightened" and "rational" ... confirming God's opinion (Jer 17:9; Rom 1:18-21).