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🗓️ 12 August 2016
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0:00.0 | Rob Smith joins us one more time. Rob is a theologian who lectures in systematic theology |
0:10.4 | and ethics at Sydney Missionary and Bible College in Australia. He also serves as honorary |
0:15.2 | assistant minister at St Andrews Anglican Cathedral in Sydney. He approaches the topic of transgender |
0:21.1 | revolution as a biblical theologian, a historian of the movement, and as a pastor whose own family |
0:26.2 | has been touched by the realities and the tensions of gender dysphoria. We close out the week talking |
0:32.1 | about transgenderism, which is somewhat of a misleading term, I mean, biologically for a transition |
0:38.5 | of a male to a female or of a female to a male, what can not happen physically? I mean, what |
0:45.7 | will simply not be able to happen to the body in a transition? I'm thinking of a male to female |
0:52.4 | transition, which would not bring with it monthly cycles or a womb or a biological clock. |
0:59.4 | So what biological functions are simply not transferable between the genders? |
1:04.0 | Yes, well, he was stretching my knowledge of current medical possibilities and even what's |
1:11.3 | being attempted as we speak. I think one of the key words in what you just said is the word |
1:17.2 | natural. It's certainly not possible to create a natural biological clock in a man or for a womb |
1:27.6 | to naturally develop. However, I believe there are attempts going on to work out how to transplant |
1:35.6 | wombs. In fact, I think even this year, it happened in the case of a woman who couldn't |
1:41.6 | conceive from one, I don't remember the details, but basically her mother's womb was |
1:47.1 | uterus, was transplanted into the daughter, so the daughter could carry the child. |
1:53.7 | Now, so there are those who are trying to work out or how can we transplant a womb into a man? |
2:00.1 | And well, it's easy for us at this point to think how ridiculous that's impossible, |
2:05.9 | but of course there are also kinds of things happening now that 10 years, 100 years ago, |
2:09.8 | we would have thought we're really ridiculous and impossible. So it's hard to know where this |
2:15.2 | will or might start, but as you say, there are all kinds of things that just cannot be true of someone |
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