Gender confusion

We call it sexual freedom but it's sexual anarchy.

The torrential push to make sexual identity and gender identity something fluid, dynamic, and changing will not bring about idyllic tranquility. It can't. Freedom without form is chaos.

A couple recent stories in the news about how fast and how far things are getting pushed:

• A biological boy demands access to the girls bathroom at Hillsboro High School in Missouri.
• A Washington State University professor banned offensive terms in her classroom, terms like 'male' and 'female.'
• Did you know that there are new pronouns out there? 'Xe,' 'xem,' and 'xer' are being debated right now as proper gender neutral pronouns at the state level in Tennessee because of "gender offense" in UT Knoxville.
• Target stores have removed the gender tags in its toy departments. No longer will you find "Boys Toys" or "Girls Toys," you'll just find "Toys."

The last one is not much of a problem as you will still have Barbie in a different section than the Avengers, but the others create much bigger issues.

• Must girls who believe they are biologically female and who desire a discreet location in which to change away from one who is biologically different be coerced to abandon their discretion?
• In the case of terms and pronouns, if all is fluid, will professors have to determine your gender of the day to tag you with the proper pronoun? Or will the students have to guess which way the professor is feeling today so as not to get a mark against them?

The one place reality continues to hold sway is athletics. Because of basic biology (male and female), women cannot compete with men at the same level. If they could, they would be integrated (see golf, football, hockey). 

Men's gymnastics cannot be women's gymnastics and vice versa. The beauty and grace would be stripped of the women's events and the titanic strength would vanish from the men's.

Should we add 100 lbs to the male hockey players so that the women can compete at an equal level? But then is that equal? Or are we just highlighting the differences we all know exist? And what would become of the game with the speed slowed down?

If male golfers had to compete with shorter clubs or heavier clubs, we would miss the spectacle that is men's golf. And rather than heighten the accomplishment of women, those accomplishments would be asterisked like a Barry Bonds home run.

The clash of world views could not be more pronounced than in discussing gender and sexual identity. One side says "I determine." The other side says "It is what it is." The former is the direction the country is hurtling. The latter is the stuff of our history and our past.

The God-given forms of manhood and maleness and womanhood and femaleness are not something invented. They are inherent in every cell of your body. They cannot be changed. That form has provided form to the family: father, mother, husband and wife. It provides form and clarity to our language. It certainly provides form for the Olympics and other athletic ventures.

And from the move afoot in our halls of higher learning and of government, one of these ideas will not be permitted to exist.