Male and Female He Created Them

"When Kevin Murphy entered as a freshman at Mount Holyoke, a Massachusetts women's college, in 2003, he was female. By the time he received his diploma, he was male."  That quote is from a recent CNN story, "Male, Female, or Neither?  Debating Gender-Identity at Same-Sex Colleges," covering the dilemma our culture increasingly finds itself in over issues of gender.

There's no question that we have made a mess of gender & sex in our culture, but no one can blame God for this one.  No one can say, "Why would God make me a man on the outside and a woman on the inside?" God doesn't do that, in fact He couldn't be any more clear.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."  (Genesis 1:27)

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. . . . My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. . . . your eyes saw my unformed body” (Psalm 139:13-16). 

God made two genders - only two - and when he knitted us together intentionally, including giving each of us our gender.  We may be confused about what God has given us, but that confusion has not been caused by Him, for "what may be known about God is plain to them [all mankind], because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:19–20).

This isn't a gender issue, it's a sin and worship issue.  Thankfully Jesus has come, died, been raised, and lives today - standing in victory over sin which leads to death.