At a recent California State University Board of Trustees meeting, the debate over transgender athletes in women's sports didn't just get heated — it exposed something deeper.

Not just disagreement.

Confusion.

The clip below puts that confusion on full display. A college professor offers an explanation you have to hear to believe.

Watch that again.

"Girlfriends with penises."

That sentence would have been unintelligible just a few years ago. Not controversial. Incomprehensible. It collapses categories that, until very recently, were universally understood.

And yet here it is, spoken not by a confused teenager on social media, but by a professor at a major university.

This is the result of a system of thought that has trained people to speak fluently in a reality that does not actually exist.

We have built a framework that detaches words from meaning, identity from the body, and truth from anything fixed or knowable. Then we've taught that framework in classrooms, reinforced it in institutions, amplified it through media, and rewarded people with degrees for mastering its language.

We've learned to describe a world that isn't real ... and then congratulated ourselves for understanding it.

We are not becoming more enlightened. We are becoming more articulate in our confusion.

Scripture explains all of this. It describes a people who "call evil good and good evil," who exchange light for darkness and darkness for light (Isaiah 5:20). They don't do this because they lack intelligence, but because something deeper has gone wrong.

That's why it's not good enough to just mock the nonsense.

We must explain what is happening and offer the better way.

What we're experiencing is what happens when a culture exchanges the truth of God for something else (Romans 1). Not just morally, but intellectually. Sin doesn't only affect what we do; it affects how we think, how we reason, how we even define the world around us. Minds become darkened. Understanding becomes futile. What should be obvious becomes obscured.

They need the truth.

Listen to this woman who spoke right before the professor at the same meeting 👇

From the beginning, God's Word speaks with clarity. "Male and female, He created them" (Genesis 1:27). Not as a suggestion. Not as a social construct. But as a reality - good, intentional, and foundational. Jesus affirmed it from His own lips (Matthew 19:4).

This reflects order, purpose, and wisdom. It tells us that our bodies are not accidents to be reinterpreted, but gifts to be received (Psalm 139). It tells us that we are not self-created, but known and formed by God.

And those boundaries aren't restrictive, but protective.

Beyond that, Jesus doesn't simply teach the truth. He is the truth (John 14:6). He came to rescue us from sin, from confusion, and from the distorted ways we see ourselves and the world.

The farther we drift from God's truth, the more confusing reality becomes. The only way back is through Him.

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