Does God Care About Gender Identity?

It’s been dubbed the “Gender Revolution.” If you’re reading from anywhere in the West, you see it all around. Gender identity has been disconnected from biology. What you feel about your body matters more than what you can see and touch. Children who are encouraged to believe they were born into the wrong-gendered body now expect and even demand support from parents and other authorities as they seek life-altering drugs and surgeries to “confirm” the gender with which they identify.

For almost a decade, I’ve fielded questions from concerned parents, friends, and pastors about this Gender Revolution. That’s why I’m glad Samuel Ferguson has written the booklet Does God Care About Gender Identity?, one of the first in a new series from The Gospel Coalition and Crossway called Hard Questions. The other new titles are Why Do We Feel Lonely at Church? by Jeremy Linneman and Is Christianity Good for the World? by Sharon James. You can buy these short books in bulk for your church at just $7.99 apiece right now on Amazon. But you’ll get the best deal at the TGC Store, where you can purchase three copies for the price of two. 

Samuel Ferguson has been the rector of The Falls Church Anglican in Falls Church, Virginia, since 2019. I first saw him writing on gender dysphoria in a 2015 book review for TGC. He earned his PhD in biblical anthropology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also contributed to our 2022 article “Transformation of a Transgender Teen” by Sarah Zylstra. Ferguson joined me on Gospelbound to discuss this cultural revolution and address everything from parents to pronouns to the distressing experience of gender dysphoria. 

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