If you watched the Olympics these past weeks you’ve seen many male and female bodies beautifully sculpted by years and years spent practicing their sport. From swimming to high jump to kayaking, we see male and female bodies shaped in similar ways by training, but the women are shorter and less buff than their male counterparts. The men simply swim faster, jump higher and paddle more powerfully than the women.

For teachers in the Charlotte, NC school district, it must have been something of a reality check. They spent part of their in-service training last week being instructed by resources from transgender activists.

By day they were told that sex is “assigned” at birth. As if sex is something that a delivery nurse arbitrarily or accidentally determines.

By night they watched highlights of every male sprinter lining up in the blocks with larger shoulders and thicker wrists than their more graceful female counterparts.

They saw how the constantly DNA-triggered wash of testosterone in Usaine Bolt’s body enabled him to run for the 100-meter gold in 9.81 seconds while his Jamaican teammate Elaine Thompson won hers in 10.71.

By day they were told that we call ourselves a man or woman based on “an internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or another gender(s).” Based on the cosmic accident of how we feel in the moment, with no special dignity or purpose to it.

By night they watched male and female Olympians kissing their babies or holding their babes in arms as they took victory walks on the track. The XY or YY DNA in every cell in their bodies had genetically determined their destiny to be fathers or mothers, fulfilling their high calling and purpose to be fruitful and multiply.

By day the Charlotte teachers were instructed how to help young students (not boys and girls, but “students” please) fill out a “Gender Unicorn” worksheet that presented them with multiple gender options:

What is your gender identity? (female, woman, girl, male, man, boy, other)

What is your gender expression? (feminine, masculine, other)

What is your sex assigned at birth? (male, female, other, intersex)

Physically attracted to (women, men, other)?

Emotionally attracted to (women, men, other)?

… so many choices.

By night they watched games that were totally binary. And have been since 1900.

Anomalies, Compassion, and the Created Order

On Saturday they might watch a controversial athlete, Caster Semena, run the women’s 800 meter race. She is more muscled up and faster than the competition. Her birth certificate declares she is a female. But she may have elevated levels of testosterone in her body that give her an unfair advantage over the other women.

We live in a fallen world where genes are fragmented and human souls are wounded. My DNA triggers my immune system to attack my joints. Caster’s triggers a surplus of testosterone. Some genes trigger an intersex genetalia.

But these are anomalies. Binary sexuality is the created order and the foundation of civilization. When adults try to impose gender unicorns on children, there is always an agenda: Yes, they want young people with trans feelings not to feel abnormal. Or get bullied. We all need to show great compassion for kids who feel this way. But this happily coincides with the pleasure and comfort of adult sexual preferences at the expense of the health of children and families.

A sex study released by the CDC this week revealed that “Nationwide, 88.8% of students identified as heterosexual, 2.0% identified as gay or lesbian, 6.0% identified as bisexual, and 3.2% were not sure of their sexual identity.”

For the sake of a small, troubled minority we are going to teach kids that biological facts no longer matter? Why not rather teach kindness and forbearance for those whose feelings do not agree with their biology? More than 60% will grow out of it if binary choices continue to be held up as the norm.

Disordered Lives

Professor Robert Lopez, President of the International Children’s Rights Institute and a self-described bisexual, told The Stream, “It seems that the youths tagged [in the CDC study] as gay, lesbian and bi have high incidents of many misbehaviors, like carrying weapons to school, cocaine use, steroids, getting in fights and starting marijuana before they are 13,” he said in an email interview.

“For instance, gay teens report high rates of being beaten up by their significant others, of being forced to have sex against their will by people they are dating — which would imply that in the gay dating pool there are just a lot more uncharitable behaviors in general. It is simply impossible that all these outcomes are the result of homophobia.”

God created us male and female with a great and beautiful purpose. We disrupt his purposes in the face of great danger. We risk inflicting these risky reported behaviors and the depression that goes with them on larger numbers of children by intentionally confusing them about sexuality.

There is no scientific evidence to support that intentionally confusing 89% of heterosexual kids as to their core identity is healthy.

And what damage might the Gender Unicorn inflict on the Olympic games? Might the teachers of the future go home to watch increasing numbers of testosterone or estrogen-enhanced trans and intersex “women” deprive biological women of their place in the games? Maybe there would be enough support for a special Olympics for those athletes.

If the Gender Unicorn doesn’t work at the Olympics, why would we bring it into our schools? There is a much more time-tested wisdom: “God created them male and female. And God saw everything that he had made, and it was very good.”