Don't the girls' feelings count?

In Genesis 1, God said: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God created human creatures in His own image in two distinct sexes to serve His purposes, which include to “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

One doesn’t even have to believe in the Creator to understand that biology is a strong determinative factor in our existence. A man who believes he’s in the wrong body has disordered thinking. He can seek help or not, and he retains the same civil rights as anyone else. We have serious problems, however, when such a person enlists the government to accommodate him in a way that infringes on the rights of others.

For example, officials of a school district in Illinois decided to allow a boy pretending to be a girl to use the girls’ restrooms and changing facilities—under the threat of withdrawing federal funding. This is a violation and a fundamental shift for modesty, privacy, and safety—all for a boy who wants to be a girl. WORLD’s Kiley Crossland reported earlier today:

“Last week’s agreement gives the student access to the locker room, but within hours of the vote, district and federal officials diverged on the practical application. [Township High School District 211 Superintendent Daniel] Cates said Thursday the agreement applied only to Student A, only if the student used a privacy curtain in the locker room, and did not change districtwide policy.

“That’s a mischaracterization,” said Catherine Lhamon, Education Department assistant secretary for civil rights. She said the deal applied to all district students, did not hinge on the use of a privacy curtain—though Student A has agreed to use one—and required the district to revise its annual notice of nondiscrimination.

The agreement is the issue, of course, but is it even binding? What if the boy, depending on how he feels that day, changes in front of the curtain? What about the girls, who now have no choice but to share private areas with this boy and any others who decide they’re “girls”? What options do the girls have if they’re uncomfortable when a boy enters a room where they change clothes? The fight for decency is that much harder if our institutions won’t fight for it.

What are our options? An immediate yet impractical solution would be for Christians to begin taking their children out of government schools. The “gender confusion” lobby can’t indoctrinate Christian students in tax-supported schools to see this disorder as normal if there are no students in these schools to indoctrinate. Just think what would happen if Christian parents and others who opposed this took their children out of these schools en masse.

One thing we know for certain would happen. Some group would call it “bigotry” and lobby the government to stop it. But we push on.