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Ask Pastor John

Counsel for Those Considering Transgender

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How should you counsel a friend who is considering transgender? Pastor John offers seven encouragements.

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0:00.0

Last time in episode 357, you addressed actor Laverne Cox, who was born a boy.

0:12.0

He has now chosen to take on a female identity.

0:15.3

Cox appears on the cover of the June 9 issue of Time magazine.

0:18.6

In the last podcast, you talked about the principles of Romans 1 and nature, but we need

0:22.6

to make this even more personal.

0:24.1

Pastor John, what would you say to a young man or a woman who is considering a sex change

0:27.8

operation?

0:28.8

And for a variety of reasons, the transgender option appeals to them.

0:33.1

Now you're sitting across the table from them.

0:35.1

What do you say?

0:36.1

Right.

0:37.1

Yeah, it is absolutely right that I get to that question because last time I just tried

0:41.3

to do foundational stuff.

0:43.3

And I believe those foundational things are absolutely essential in coming to terms

0:49.4

with who we are in our anatomy and our chromosomes and then in our identity.

0:56.4

So let's suppose the person says, okay, Piper, I listened and I've always felt that way.

1:02.4

I don't feel good about this.

1:04.5

I believe it's wrong for me to try to get a sex change operation or whatever.

1:10.3

What am I supposed to do with these unbelievably strong desires that I have?

1:17.3

What about me and the fact that I feel like a woman, even though I have a male body or

1:22.9

I feel like a man, even though I have a female body, what am I supposed to do?

1:27.1

And before I give my council, I really need to insert here a reality that I'm not talking

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