Male and female He created them

Facebook has announced that it is letting its United States users to choose their gender among 58 options. Some of the options are: "transgender," "cisgender," "gender fluid," "intersex," “trans female,” “trans male,” “trans person,” “gender variant,” “gender questioning,” “bigender,” “androgynous,” “pangender,” “transsexual” and "neither." Facebook promises to work with leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups to come up with new categories.

So much for common sense and the all-important phrase, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1: 27).

Recently I read a fantastic article by Bill Maguire entitled “Gay” Catholics and an Adequate Anthropology (you can find it on the web at: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3718/gay_catholics_and_an_adequate_anthropology.aspx). He succinctly and beautifully summarizes the Catholic world view on sexuality, gender and same-sex attraction:

“The central tenet of the traditional Catholic understanding of the human person and human sexuality is that man—male and female—is created in the image of God (imago Dei). As Creator, God made a decision that the human person should always and only exist as a man or a woman. Consequently there are not multiple genders, as LGBT gender theory asserts, but only two: male and female. Our gender (or sex) is determined by the sex of our body: a person with a male body is a man and can never be otherwise; a person with a female body is a woman and can never be otherwise. Thus, for example, when a person with a female body self-identifies as a man instead of a woman, this is not a sign that she is “transgender.” Rather, it is a sign that something has gone wrong with her psychosexual development. And the appropriate course of action for her is not to adopt a fictional gender, but to seek the healing of her psychosexual development so that she move towards accepting and embracing who she truly is: a woman. Moreover, according to the traditional Catholic teaching on sexuality there are not multiple sexualities, as LGBT gender theory asserts, but only two: male sexuality and female sexuality. Consequently, there are only two sexual orientations. The sexuality of a man is oriented towards—is designed by God for—nuptial union with a woman. The sexuality of a woman is oriented towards—is designed by God for—nuptial union with a man.”

I could not have expressed it better.