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Part of the transgender debate is about sex change surgery. Dr. Michael Brown, host of the nationally syndicated "Line of Fire" radio programme, believes it's important to determine whether it is a sin to have this kind of surgery.
Brown writes in an article for The Christian Post that there are two sides people have to consider. The first represents "traditional" Christian thinking, which believes it is a sin to mutilate or remove perfectly healthy body parts that God has so freely given.
The second side belongs to "progressive" Christian thinkers who believe sex change surgery can be life-changing since it makes God's children find wholeness.
"Which view is right? And does the Word even address the question of sex-change surgery or, more broadly, the question of transgender identity?" asks Brown.
The author of the book "The Grace Controversy" says the Bible does not say anything specific about sex change surgery, or anything about body-altering surgery.
However, the Bible does say that God created human beings male and female, that male-female distinctions are of foundational importance, and that male-female distinctions should be celebrated, Brown says.
"And so, while we recognise that some people are born with biological or chromosomal abnormalities, generally identified as intersex, we don't overthrow God's intended order for their sake," says Brown. "Rather, with compassion, we view them as suffering from a handicap and we work with them to find the best way to achieve wholeness, which could include surgery to address a particular aspect of that handicap."
Brown adds that the war on gender is a war against God's intended order for humanity. God alone can determine the emotional and physical struggles faced by a person, but Brown does not believe His best solution for these issues would be for a woman "to have her breasts removed, her genitalia radically (and imperfectly) altered, and her body pumped with male hormones for the rest of her life."
"At best, it would appear that such radical surgery is terribly misguided but perhaps done out of great duress. At worst, it would be open sin against God," says Brown.
