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Related ArticlesBecoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodiesWhy We Stopped Doing Sex Change OperationsTranscriptNo matter where you look, Bruce Jenner is all over the news. Now it might not be with his name Bruce Jenner. It might be the name Caitlyn Jenner. For those of you who aren't familiar with this, here is a brief rundown. Bruce Jenner competed in the Olympics and actually won a gold medal in 1976 in the decathlon, which is a track and field series of events. Recently, he has been on the cover of Vanity Fair as a woman because you see Bruce Jenner no longer exists, at least as the narrative goes. Now Bruce no longer exists but Caitlyn Jenner exists and is a person.Bruce Jenner has changed his gender, and now Caitlyn is the person formerly known as Bruce and Caitlyn totally identifies as a woman. The question is, as Christians, how should we respond to this type of situation which is becoming more and more common? Whenever we are talking about how we should respond to a situation, the bible should be our authority. The question should become “what does the bible say about transgender issues?” Directly, not too much, but that doesn’t mean the bible doesn’t have something to say here. What it does mean is that we should look all the way back at the beginning in Genesis where God says Genesis 1:27 that he created as male and female in his own image. Male and female, we were created, and as Christians we understand this but we were created in the image of God. That gives us a dignity, an intrinsic worth and we are all worthy of respect in that way as image bearers of God but we are also created different. He didn’t create “androgynous person 1” and “androgynous person 2”. He created a male and a female. These are distinct from one another. They are complementary, but they are not able to substituted for one another. This is key, as Christians, our anthropology — our concept of man and who he is — is very important. It must include the fact that man, as a race, is made up of men and women who are distinct and are complementary. That's the first couple of things. You must affirm that genders or sexes are different and that also both sexes have a value and intrinsic worth and dignity. The next thing we need to affirm about man as part of our biblical anthropology is that sin has corrupted everything. By “everything” I mean everything and everyone. No one is exempt or untouched by the blemish, the stain and the corruption of sin. In a fallen world, in a Genesis Three world, it is not going to be uncommon to see people who are not happy with themselves, who wish they were somewhere else, who wish they were someone else, who wish they were a different gender. When we have a robust concept of man based on the bible, these types of issues of men thinking they are women or wanting to be women, shouldn’t necessarily surprise us because the corruption that results from sin really has no limit, except for what God restrains. We see examples of this in homosexuality. This flows from a corrupted or a sinful nature. Transgender issues or gender dysphoria — not being happy with your current gender or even feeling like that gender accurately reflects who you are — would be an example of something that would occur and does occur in a fallen world. There is also another area that's related here that isn’t often talked about: “transabled" people. This is a new term and so often these conversations are marked by new terms. Last week quite a few people were asking what's a throuple? That word doesn’t exist in the dictionary. Well, that's a grouping of three people who want to be in a relationship all together. The fact is, the vocabulary here is struggling to keep up with the …