Should a Transgender Person Believe to Be Restored to His/Her Original Gender?
As the question is asked, no.
Shocked you with that answer, didn’t I? Here’s the reason – that person never changed gender in the first place!
Believing to be “restored” to the opposite gender implies belief in the lie that the person’s gender ever changed. That is unbiblical. God created us male and female (Genesis 1:27). Those are the only two real genders. Who He made you is what you are. A person with only X chromosomes should not pretend to be a man, and a person with X and Y chromosomes should not pretend to be a woman.
Say that I decided one day that I identify as female and that I should now be addressed as Stephanie. Say that I now wear dresses and other female apparel. Then say that I get hormone treatment so that my features change to be more feminine. Then say that I allow my male organs to be surgically removed. Then say that I live somewhere where the devil has convinced the government that it’s OK to issue me a new driver’s license and birth certificate that both say Stephanie Young. Then I get saved and realize my error.
I would not have to believe to be changed from female back to male because I am simply a cross-dressing, drugged, mutilated man with a phony ID and birth certificate. At no point did I stop being male. I was born with X and Y chromosomes and those are all I ever had. At no point was I a woman with only X chromosomes.
A person with X and Y chromosomes is male. A person with only X chromosomes is female. That is the end of the discussion as far as that goes. The XY person should use male facilities and play on male sports teams and the XX person should use female facilities and play on female sports teams.
Obviously, the transgender person should talk to the doctor about stopping the use of the hormones of the opposite gender and undoing anything else related to the original gender change to any extent possible. The surgical thing was a tragedy. The person has the biblical right to believe to be fully restored. It is not God’s will for someone to act unnaturally. This was even true back under the Law (Deuteronomy 22:5). I look forward to seeing these kinds of miracles for these people whom the devil has deceived.
Someone is sure to bring up the issue of someone born with parts of both genders. In this day and age, someone’s real gender should be determinable from his or her chromosomes. In the rare case that someone was taken to be the wrong gender based on chromosomes, the person should stay in the gender that reflects his or her chromosomes. Any abnormalities are fair game for receiving healing from Jesus. You would have every right to say, “Lord, when You said that You made them male and female, you didn’t mean that the same person should be both” and to claim healing on the same basis as any other birth defect.
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