In an unfortunately unsurprising move, the Southern Baptist Convention, an organization that has always had grotesque views of LGBTQ+ people, now has a new enemy to unleash its hatred upon – trans kids.
Amid a U.S. Supreme Court case set for later this year on Tennessee’s 2023 state law restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, the convention has decided to throw its hat in the ring, filing earlier this month a brief, in support of the state law, with the federal lawsuit United States v. Skrmetti.
“Biological sex is not only immutable but also part of the goodness of God’s creation,” the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, the convention’s public policy arm, wrote jointly in the brief.
This is quite the claim – that sex is immutable – from the Southern Baptist Convention. Let’s investigate the claim.
To start, using the term “sex” in this context, a common mistake, is not accurate. The correct term is “gender.”