Josh Benner

Tag: gender

  • Best of 2018. #5 Parents allowing children to decide their gender: why?

    As 2018 comes to a close, I am sharing some of my top posts from this year.  A recent article from NBC talks about a Massachusetts family who are raising their twin boys without a gender. The idea behind this parenting philosophy is to allow the twins to decide for themselves when they’re older. In…

  • New gender study suppressed because it doesn’t fit agenda

    I originally read about this story on the DailyWire. A recent article from a Brown University researcher named Lisa Littman was published on the subject of rapid-onset gender dysphoria. In short, there can be a social component to issues with gender identity. The article suggests the hypothesis that: friends and online sources could spread certain beliefs. Examples…

  • Society doesn’t dictate gender. God does.

    It’s becoming somewhat of a buzz phrase that a person’s gender is a cultural construct. This idea flatly contradicts the wisdom of human experience and long established cultural norms. But more importantly, this thinking contradicts God’s creation. God designed men and women in his creation. Our gender is an essential part of our being. Until…

  • Parents allowing children to decide their gender: why?

    A recent article from NBC talks about a Massachusetts family who are raising their twin boys without a gender. The idea behind this parenting philosophy is to allow the twins to decide for themselves when they’re older. In the story, the mother made the fair point about how we do have ways how we stereotype…

  • Pro choice paradox: why efforts to curb gender selective abortions are irrational

    Note: this post discusses what I see as a logical paradox in the current debate about abortion as a means of gender selection. Full disclosure: I am personally pro life. I’ve written before about the topic of gender selective abortion. In developing nations, the process of aborting a fetus (typically of a girl) based on…