The Firstfruits of Gender Identity Theory

By: Chris Johnson

As Christians, our hope for the future includes resurrected and perfected bodies. Romans 8 describes this: “we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved…”

The ailments and flaws, exhaustion and disabilities of our sinful bodies will not afflict us in the resurrection, and this is a great comfort to us as our aspirations are hampered daily by this fallen flesh.

Paul says in his letter to the Philippians, “For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”

This contrast that Paul makes between the people of God in Philippi and the pagans who surrounded them rings equally true in our own society. Our pagan neighbors are ruled by their appetites; they glory in the things they ought to be ashamed of, and this leads to destruction.

As we look to the resurrected Jesus as the firstfruits of what we have to look forward to in Christ, let’s take a moment to examine one of the firstfruits of the pagan ideology which has taken hold of our culture in our day.

Let’s take a moment to review the tragic history of one of the “firstfruits” of gender ideology: David Reimer.

David Reimer was born in 1965 along with his twin brother. After a botched circumcision left his genitals mutilated, the consulting psychiatrist told his parents that the baby boy would be “unable to consummate marriage or have normal heterosexual relations; he will have to recognise that he is incomplete, physically defective, and that he must live apart.”

Understandably distraught at this announcement, the parents thought they’d found a chance for a fulfilling life for their son when the mother happened to see Dr. John Money describing his work on a television program. Dr. Money was an early advocate of a radical theory that gender was malleable at early ages, with individuals younger than two adopting whatever gender role was placed on them.

The Reimer parents contacted Dr. Money and found him only too willing to take on their case. With the Reimer twins, John Money had hit the jackpot – the perfect test case to confirm his theory. One of the male twins, David, would be raised as a typical girl, complete with cosmetic genital surgery as an infant with future surgeries and hormone therapy planned as the child developed. Meanwhile, the other twin would be the perfect control for such a study: constructed of identical genetic material, raised in the same environment, and brought up as a typical boy. If his theory was correct, both children would grow up to have happy and fulfilling lives.

And, wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what his published study showed. It was considered a success and used to justify subsequent cases of sex reassignment surgeries in children.

But the Reimer boys’ own remembrances of their upbringing, and particularly their time with Dr. Money, told a very different story.

David did grow up convinced that he was a girl, but he hated being brought up as one, nonetheless. He would abandon his dolls to play with his brother’s trucks and guns. He resented being put in dresses. He (then known to himself and everyone else as “Brenda”) was teased in school for his masculine tastes and characteristics. Even after hormone therapy produced breasts as he went through adolescence, he told adults that he felt like a boy. But, Dr. Money’s insistence that the secret be kept prevailed for 14 years.

When a local psychiatrist convinced the family that “Brenda” must be told the truth, David quickly reverted to what God had made him to be. Extensive cosmetic surgery restored some semblance of what the medical professionals had taken from him, and he reintroduced himself to the world as David.

Throughout the course of all of this, his mother had attempted suicide, his father had become an alcoholic, and his twin brother struggled with drug use, crime, and depression – which would years later result in his own suicide.

David’s realization of what had been done to him didn’t lead to fulfillment either. He forgave his mother, partnered with another doctor to debunk the work of John Money, and was eventually married. Still, he attempted suicide twice before he turned 20, and went through with the awful act when he was 38, putting an end to Dr. John Money’s great experiment.

Few will have such miseries thrust on them, as happened to David Reimer, but many in our day foolishly choose it for themselves, burdened by societal mandates to break tradition and be whatever they want to be, rather than what they were made to be.

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death,” Proverbs 14:12 says.

May our testimonies remind our neighbors where their only hope truly lies.

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