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Pew: Attitudes about transgender issues vary widely among Christians, religious ‘nones’ in U.S.

By Filings on Fri, 07/08/22
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“Among U.S. adults overall, six-in-ten now say that whether a person is a man or a woman is determined by their sex assigned at birth. … among White evangelicals (87%) and Black Protestants (70%). Among Catholics, the share who say a person’s gender cannot differ from sex at birth has risen from 52% in 2021 to 62% this year.” - Pew

Pew: About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth

By Filings on Wed, 06/08/22
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“The share of U.S. adults who are transgender is particularly high among adults younger than 25. In this age group, 3.1% are a trans man or a trans woman, compared with just 0.5% of those ages 25 to 29.” - Pew

Defining ‘Woman’ Starts with Humanity, Not Femaleness

By Filings on Thu, 03/31/22
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“Conservatives quickly memed Jackson, portraying her refusal to answer the question as clear indication of progressive nonsense. After all, anyone should be able to define what a woman is. The only problem with this, of course, is that we’ve struggled to define what a woman is for thousands of years.” - Hannah Anderson

STEM and sex differences in occupational preference: some differences are universal

By Filings on Tue, 02/01/22
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“…we analyzed the occupational aspirations of nearly half a million 15- and 16-year-olds across 80 developing and developed nations that participated in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of mathematics, science, and reading competencies.” - IFS

GARBC has updated its purpose statement and article of faith on creation and gender

By Filings on Thu, 07/02/20
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“During the business meeting on Monday, voting messengers approved an update to the GARBC’s official Purpose Statement. …The messengers also approved an expansion to the association’s official doctrinal position on Creation (Article of Faith V) to address the issue of human gender more explicitly.” - GARBC

Boys and Girls Are Different — Let’s Celebrate That

By Filings on Tue, 07/31/18
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“I have two children. Our four-year-old is a girl; her two-year-old brother is a boy. I know these things because I have a functioning inferior temporal cortex. Apparently, the editors at the BBC do not.” - NReview

Episcopal Church Debates Whether to Make God Gender-Neutral in Book of Common Prayer

By Filings on Thu, 07/05/18
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“As the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church kicks off in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, church officials are set to consider competing resolutions on whether their Book of Common Prayer, last revised in 1979, needs to be revised to send a strong message that God does not have a gender.” - CPost

"While the world may be surprised that 'a scientist's gender can skew research results,' Christians shouldn't be."

By Filings on Thu, 01/18/18
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“According to a Jan. 10 article in the journal Science Advances, volunteers for experiments as diverse as intelligence tests and pain sensitivity studies have been found to respond differently when they are dealing with a researcher of the opposite gender.” BPNews

The Nashville Statement from CBMW

By TylerR on Tue, 08/29/17
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Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: [I]n the hope of serving Christ’s church and witnessing publicly to the good purposes of God for human sexuality revealed in Christian Scripture, we offer the following affirmations and denials.

Gender Non-Conformity Running Roughshod Over Parents' Rights

By Jim on Thu, 04/07/16
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Gender Non-Conformity Running Roughshod Over Parents’ Rights

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