Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. This is Kevin DeYoung.

I'm going to read this article. It came out in World a couple of days ago that I wrote called We Live in Confusing Times.

So be sure to check it out on the World Opinions page.

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folks right there too. So this is, we live in confusing times. Follow me in the following intellectual

exercise. Gender is a social construct, period. At the same time, it's always good when women can break glass ceilings.

We should celebrate all the firsts that we see women do because women are certainly not men.

By women, of course, I mean anyone who identifies as a woman, including people who used to be known as men. Sex is a socially derived category

that assigns certain physical differences and then labels those differences as, quote,

male or, quote, female. There are no immutable distinctions between men and women. We are all

on a spectrum. We can all change unless we are talking about sexual desires.

Coming out as gay or lesbian is something we should all be proud of because people can't change

the way they were born. In fact, it should be illegal for doctors and counselors and religious leaders

to try to change people who were born a certain way.

But some people definitely should be able to change the way they were born in terms of gender.

And doctors and counselors and religious leaders should do everything they can to encourage this change.

Sometimes our bodies don't align with our true selves.

Never forget your self-identity is your genuine identity.

Except when it comes to race and ethnicity. You should never claim an ethnic or racial identity that isn't yours. Be very careful what you eat, what you wear. You can't just appropriate someone else's culture,

you know, but you can appropriate someone else's gender or go with no gender at all.

We have all been socialized into a gender system that tells us how to think and how to act.

The sooner we do away with the notion of a gender binary altogether, the better. But just remember, women have been held back

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