It was “so refreshing” to hear “someone in our highest office confirm that you can’t change your biological sex,” exclaimed Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, director of FRC’s Center for Family Studies, on “Washington Watch.” “Just a few weeks ago we were listening to someone [in the administration] talk about ‘gender-affirming care’ as lifesaving care.”

In a Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump publicly tackled transgender ideology in language that was not only common sense, but also aligned with biblical truth.

“I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” he told Congress — and, by extension, the nation. “I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

These points were “things that I would have preached in a message,” said Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.), former pastor of First Baptist Church in Charlotte, on “Washington Watch” Wednesday. In fact, “you could hear that — and should be hearing that — from every pulpit in America.”

Indeed, God’s word establishes two distinct sexes in the very first chapter of Genesis — the very account of creation itself. “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).

In this multi-layered statement, Moses does more than simply say that God made men, and God made women, though that would be a sufficient reason to reject transgender ideology.

But Moses does something far more profound. He embeds the very concepts of maleness and femaleness within the context of God creating man in his own image. Somehow, the very existence of men and women — as male and female, in all our similarities and differences — reflects God’s own character.

After God created human beings in this way, Moses concludes, “God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). God deemed his creation good throughout his creative work, but only after he created mankind did God call it “very good.” God’s creation of people as male and female is not only a good thing about the world we live; it is — according to God — the best thing.

No anthropological origin story produces a fuller justification for the dignity and worth of every human being than this true account, which sources human dignity from mankind’s reflection of God’s very own nature. And, among this doctrine’s many implications traced by theologians, its connection to human sexuality receives star billing in the text of Scripture itself.

When applied to America’s transgender debates, in the year 2025, these reflections carry a warning: attempts to change a person’s gender from male to female or vice versa are not only foolishly marring God’s good creation, but they are also attempting something that is impossible because it is backward — like making trees grow on fruit, or adults grow up into babies.

And since this warning is sourced directly from God’s word, it is within a pastor’s purview to address it from the pulpit.

Granted, not everything in the Mosaic law applies directly to New Covenant, Gentile believers. For instance, Jesus himself annulled the dietary laws (Mark 7:18-19, see also Acts 10:9-16). In particular, any lessons learned from the perfect creation of Genesis 1-2 must be filtered through the tragic reality of the Fall in Genesis 3.

Therefore, we must rely on other biblical authors to interpret passages that are far removed from our current context. Most of all, if we claim to follow Christ, we must look to Jesus’s own interpretation of the Old Testament.

It turns out that Jesus cited the exact phrase from Genesis 1:27 that we are considering, “God made them male and female.” He applied it to a contemporary controversy regarding sexual ethics (divorce for any cause). He treated the then-ancient text as if it were still utterly authoritative. And, on the basis of this text, he delivered an unpopular, but uncompromising, verdict on the issue at hand (Matthew 19:3-9, Mark 10:2-9).

Jesus’s actions provide a model for how American pastors today should approach the transgender issue.

Fortunately, with Trump back in the White House, it becomes that much easier to tell the truth about transgenderism, when the nation’s executor-in-chief is saying the same things.

Trump did not necessarily make these comments because he is a born-again Christian, scrupulously moral, or even all that truthful. Trump is a pragmatist who holds to common sense, as he sees it. We can thank God that, on this issue, Trump — not to mention most Americans — hold a commonsense position that aligns with biblical truth.

Any person on the street could tell you that there are two types of people, men and women, even without reading (or believing) the book of Genesis. Now, for a change, the person sitting behind the Resolute Desk can tell that, too.