...I am tired of apologizing for who I am and what I believe.
Is it wrong for me to be uncomfortable around a good friend who recently began to call herself “transgender”? She says she “self-identifies as a gay man.” This makes sense to her because “sexual preference is separate from sexual orientation.” It sounds far more like she is a straight female uncomfortable in her own skin.
Understand that I would never mock her or treat her cruely: I wouldn’t even identify her by name here. But God created man and woman. With very few legitimate biological anamolies which can be medically identified, these are the two categories. “Gender,” as applied to human sexuality, is a myth. Gender applies to language—to confuse the words “gender” and “sex” when speaking about a matter of anatomy is to imply that sexual characteristics are societally imposed and not predetermined in any way. But sexuality is a wonderful gift from God! I’m so happy being a woman and I feel like my poor friend is tragically misguided. I don’t know to act around her and, while I’m expected to accept her worldview, nothing compells her to accept mine.
Any advice? I’m really not a heartless religious conservative. Just a traditionalist who wants to treat people with love without endorsing their choices.
