Thank you very much for expressing your views clearly and passionately Aaron. We certainly march to different drummers here.
On the surface I would say that when you bring up the existence of intersex individuals, you're trying to use exceptions to disprove the rule, when a more reasonable way to see things is that exceptions only prove a rule. In light of that, the following words of yours seem like massive overstatements:
"...biological sex isn't real..."
"...sex isn’t a given biological fact."
"...the idea that we can split people into two categories - male and female - has no basis in human biology."
"...it doesn’t make any sense to talk about sex as binary (as either male or female)."
"...so the idea [sex] doesn’t exist is inconceivable to us."
"...sex is not a biological truth...'
So in regards to the man in the article you cited who had fathered four children but turned out to have some intersex characteristics, is he not...a man? I mean, would anyone doubt just by getting to know and talk to him, that despite the presence of something like a uterus, he very neatly fit into one slot of the "traditional binary"? I would argue that what determines someone's sex is greater than the sum of its parts, not being completely dependent on one exact thing (reproductive capabilities, genitalia, hormones, chromosomes). But those things do fall in lockstep the overwhelming majority of the time. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, it's because there is an intention behind it, a design?
Jesus thought so as he quoted Genesis and gave his "heteronormative" definition of marriage:
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female', and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." (Matthew 19:4-6)
Neither was He ignorant of the sexual abnormalities brought to creation as a curse for Adam's sin:
"For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it." (Matthew 19:12)
I don't think this man is a Christian like myself, but I do very much appreciate his clarity:
thanks for writing this! great article and love the idea of 'bastard philosophy' :)
Thank you very much for expressing your views clearly and passionately Aaron. We certainly march to different drummers here.
On the surface I would say that when you bring up the existence of intersex individuals, you're trying to use exceptions to disprove the rule, when a more reasonable way to see things is that exceptions only prove a rule. In light of that, the following words of yours seem like massive overstatements:
"...biological sex isn't real..."
"...sex isn’t a given biological fact."
"...the idea that we can split people into two categories - male and female - has no basis in human biology."
"...it doesn’t make any sense to talk about sex as binary (as either male or female)."
"...so the idea [sex] doesn’t exist is inconceivable to us."
"...sex is not a biological truth...'
So in regards to the man in the article you cited who had fathered four children but turned out to have some intersex characteristics, is he not...a man? I mean, would anyone doubt just by getting to know and talk to him, that despite the presence of something like a uterus, he very neatly fit into one slot of the "traditional binary"? I would argue that what determines someone's sex is greater than the sum of its parts, not being completely dependent on one exact thing (reproductive capabilities, genitalia, hormones, chromosomes). But those things do fall in lockstep the overwhelming majority of the time. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, it's because there is an intention behind it, a design?
Jesus thought so as he quoted Genesis and gave his "heteronormative" definition of marriage:
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female', and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." (Matthew 19:4-6)
Neither was He ignorant of the sexual abnormalities brought to creation as a curse for Adam's sin:
"For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it." (Matthew 19:12)
I don't think this man is a Christian like myself, but I do very much appreciate his clarity:
https://unherd.com/2019/12/yes-of-course-biological-sex-exists/
If you care to correspond in detail about this offline, you can write me:
DavidJohnPimentel@gmail.com
Regardless, I will pray that you will come to know truth through Jesus.