He/him, she/her, or they/them, these are all pronouns that have become an identity issue. The transgender community is all up in arms about these pronouns.
First and foremost what does the WORD of God say?
In Genesis chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, and many more, Matthew 19 and Mark 10, God says that he created humankind, male and female! Two genders, no transgender or homosexual preferences.
What are Christians to do with this issue in our modern society? It’s a question that we are all going to have to face if not already. The book, The Gender Revolution, speaks to the subject of so-called “pronoun hospitality” along with the pressure to tell others your preferred pronouns and provide their guidance.
An author and speaker, Preston Sprinkle calls this approach “pronoun hospitality”, and believes that “using the pronouns a person identifies with should be a matter of common courtesy, not a legal demand”.
The author Tim Challies says “In our view, it is not compassionate because it reinforces a falsehood. We recommend that when communicating with someone who has changed their identity, you avoid using pronouns and instead use their name all the time … This may make communication more difficult and awkward—but, in a sense, that’s the point. Adopting a transgender identity doesn’t make anything better; it only makes things worse.”
Focus on the Family says, “Christians and all people of sound reason must understand that the pressure to use gender pronouns is an indoctrination in the anti-scientific, unreasonable faith of gender ideology and transgenderism.”
I recommend a book by Rosaria Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age it is insightful on this and other controversial issues with a Bible-centered perspective.
This is a defining moment in our walk with Jesus. Will we give in to the pronoun pressure of this present age, or will we stand for what God calls us, Male and Female?