Welcome back to Jemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to propose a challenge.

How do we as Christians present the gospel to people who identify as transgendered?

You care about other human beings and you don't want to see injustice and you don't want to see

oppression of any sort, right?

Of course.

Okay, so I admire that about you.

Don't trap me.

I'm not trapping you.

In one sense, the question is easy. The truth is the truth.

But the gospel is the good news. That's literally what the term means.

And it's good news for each and every one of us individually.

So what message of good news do Christians have for people struggling with gender dysphoria?

And what's more, how do we help them to see it as good news?

After all, the gospel is not a form of stoicism or self-denial. It's a response to the God of love who saves us. We surely, you know,

deny ourselves, but never just for the sake of denying ourselves. If you're in love with someone,

you may give up everything for them, but the sacrifice only makes sense in the context of the love.

Similarly, you may take up your cross to follow Christ, but the hard news of the cross can make

sense only in light of the good news of the gospel. In one sense, that good news is the same for all

of us. All of sin and fall short of the glory of God. We all need Christ as Redeemer. So it might be

easy to just tell someone

who says they're trends, hey, you may not get all this stuff, but just grin and bear it.

That is not showing God's love to people. That's being it.

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