NY Times Columnist Accepts Trans. Christian Blowhards go Nuts

David French, formerly a leading figure in the Christian right, has come to realize conservatives Christians self-destruct when they use the faith to condemn innocent people like gay and trans. A few years back he refused to acknowledge the gender of a trans economist. He recently changed his view on this and used the proper female pronoun referring to the formerly male man. "What are French's self-serving motives?" the right-wing blogosphere is screaming.

Let's review. An adult male decides to make known publicly what he has known privately since he was a small child: He is a she. For this woman, the change is a bit more complicated than others who make known their actual gender. She was a public figure as a man and now is just as prominent, or more prominent, as a woman. 

The religious right seems more concerned with their inability of stop people from changing pronouns than they are with the societal consequences. What are the consequences to the rest of society when a well- known economist becomes a trans? There are none. Its only importance is the inability of the right to stop gender relabeling. 

Saying people doing trans has no societal importance leaves out, of course, sin. If sin is not important then trans is not important. As I understand the Christian right, a person declaring trans is sinning because God assigned each of us our gender and to change that in a sin. 

There is this complication that physical attributes of male or female may not be the same as mental attributes. When a person, often as a child, experiences the realization he/she is of a different gender than assigned at birth the question arises as to which gender was assigned by God? Was it the one that in the brain or the one in and on the body? The right wing is confident that know God meant the body. That may be merely there own preference and they are using God's mind to justify what they hope or want God to think. Doesn't the Bible say we are not to know the mind of God?