Easter is a day of trans visibility and President Joe Biden proclaimed that it was also a Transgender Day of Visibility. What does that have to do with our president? And why does that make him a monster? Allie answers these questions and more in this episode of Relatable Tuesday.
00:02:12.820He'll be 82 right after the election in November.
00:02:17.740And I was thinking about all the people that I know and have known that are that old.
00:02:23.540Some, like grandparents, have died right around that age.
00:02:28.000Other older people that I know are in nursing homes at that age.
00:02:32.660And, of course, our president of the United States is that age.
00:02:35.840And, like, I do just want to give him credit in all seriousness, compared to other 81-and-a-half-year-olds, just in general, he's doing great.
00:02:47.140Like, if you were to go visit him in a nursing home, if you were to go visit him as your grandparent or great-grandparent at his house in Delaware, you would say,
00:02:56.880my granddad is doing awesome, like, he's still riding a bike.
00:03:00.740Not very well, but he's still riding it.
00:03:03.380He's only fallen once that we know in the past few years as he's been riding his bike.
00:03:09.900So, compared to other 81-and-a-half-year-olds, he is doing great.
00:03:15.620I mean, how many 81-and-a-half-year-olds do you know who haven't said Oyster Sunday or Oyster Bunnies?
00:03:26.120I would say that's probably, like, a very common mistake among that demographic.
00:03:31.200The problem is not that he's not doing well in general.
00:03:35.480I think he is doing very well in general.
00:03:37.580The problem is that he is the president of the United States.
00:03:41.100And it's not just that he is decrepit in a lot of ways.
00:03:44.380It's not just that he is on the decline as far as his physical strength and, of course, his mental strength goes.
00:03:53.140It is also that when you combine decrepit with depraved, a decrepit mind with a depraved agenda,
00:04:03.540you get something that is very dangerous.
00:04:07.040You get something that is very, very dark.
00:04:09.500And that, of course, is what we saw this weekend.
00:04:11.480So as we have this shell of a man who is wishing everyone happy Oyster Sunday, behind that, we also have a very evil agenda.
00:04:21.480And that is acknowledging and celebrating and proclaiming this so-called Trans Day of Visibility.
00:04:29.480So if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you might have been a little put off by how I started this episode.
00:04:35.600But most of you probably saw it because it was everywhere.
00:04:38.560All of these proclamations and celebrations and announcements that Easter Sunday, that March 31st, was the Trans Day of Visibility.
00:04:48.160Now, I and many others said this is wicked, this is evil, this is awful that President Biden is making this announcement that he is proclaiming this day to be the Trans Day of Visibility.
00:05:03.420He said, I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my administration and have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military.
00:05:12.980He also said extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families, silencing teachers, banning books, even threatening parents.
00:05:22.560Of course, none of that is actually true.
00:05:27.700He says the DOJ has taken action to push back against extremism and un-American state laws targeting transgender youth and their families.
00:05:35.400And the DOJ is partnering with law enforcement and community groups to combat hate and violence.
00:05:40.940I continue to call on Congress to pass the Equality Act to codify civil rights protections for all LGBTQI plus Americans.
00:05:47.500We've done episodes on that and what an absolutely devastating effect the Equality Act would have on particularly religious freedoms and also freedom of speech.
00:05:56.620And then he says, I do hereby proclaim March 31st, 2024 as Transgender Day of Visibility in the year of our Lord 2024.
00:06:10.200So that, of course, coincided with Easter Sunday.
00:06:13.920And again, I and many others said that this announcement, this proclamation, especially coinciding with Easter Sunday, is wicked, it's evil, it's awful.
00:06:24.280And then you had the well-actuallys jump in.
00:06:28.100The well-actually people who are, I mean, they're conservative.
00:06:38.600I'm not even talking about the people who are just fact-checking.
00:06:40.920And I'm talking about the people who tried to fact-check this to undermine anyone who was calling this evil by saying, well, Transgender Day of Visibility has always been March 31st.
00:06:53.560It's been March 31st for 15 years since 2009, which can we just talk about for a second that 2009 was 15 years ago?
00:07:28.260But first of all, first of all, what I will say to that is that acknowledging this day, having a so-called Trans Day of Visibility that celebrates the butchering of people's bodies, that celebrates and affirms a lie that you can switch your gender, that is evil in and of itself.
00:07:45.720That it is coinciding with Easter, and that we have a devout Catholic, so-called President of the United States that is proclaiming it, announcing it, highlighting it, even as it coincides with Easter.
00:07:57.140Yes, that is absolutely evil and awful, 100%.
00:09:00.760They didn't have to say anything about it at all, but they decided to.
00:09:04.000They decided to to try to bludgeon people who speak the truth about gender, who speak the truth about the barbarism that this causes for children who say that they're confused about their gender and the infringement upon the safety and the rights and the privacy of girls and women.
00:09:22.040And that's what the proclamation was for, to make us look like we are extremists for saying two plus two equals four.
00:09:32.820It is an assault on the Imago Dei, on Easter of all days.
00:09:38.340And so there doesn't need to be any pushback or any finger wagging, any chastising from so-called conservatives to say, well, you just need to calm down.
00:09:50.920Trans Day of Visibility has been around since 2009.
00:10:28.140Yes, there are different policies that we can debate.
00:10:30.060I'm not saying every single policy is 100 percent wrong 100 percent of the time.
00:10:34.120But when it comes to abortion, when it comes to gender, when it comes to sexuality, when it comes to marriage, all of these foundational issues that are necessary for us to get right for our society to survive and thrive, they get it dead wrong, satanically wrong.
00:10:52.720There's just no excuse or justification for it whatsoever.
00:10:57.000So, as I said, President Biden and many in his administration were celebrating the Trans Day of Visibility very enthusiastically on Resurrection Sunday.
00:11:09.180So I'll read you some examples of just their egregious rhetoric in just a second.
00:12:24.300And so, gosh, it's so important for us to know this.
00:12:27.440God cares so much that we know what it means to be made in his image that he puts this information in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible.
00:13:41.420This idea that you can declare that you are something other than what your body tells you that you are is a radical, fanciful, crazy, extremist idea that has no grounding in science, has no grounding in the Bible.
00:14:02.360Not only do we see there the definition of gender, we also see the definition of marriage and family.
00:14:09.560And of course, you read further into the chapter and into the book, and we see the command to be fruitful and multiply.
00:14:15.220And so right there, God tells us, first book, first chapter, what it means to be human, what it means to be male and female, what it means to be married, what it means to have a family.
00:14:29.100And of course, we see this all the way through to the very end of the Bible, and we see in the marriage supper of the Lamb, we see in the last chapter of Revelation that those gender designations still exist because we see that Christ is depicted as a groom and the church is depicted as the bridegroom.
00:14:56.460And so those designations, that definition of marriage is not just biological, it also has spiritual and eternal significance.
00:15:06.600The alliteration that we've used many times is the definition of marriage is rooted in creation.
00:15:13.820It's reiterated throughout scripture, such as honor your father and mother.
00:15:19.280It is repeated by Jesus himself, Matthew 19, 4 through 5.
00:15:25.620It is representative of Christ in the church, as we see in Ephesians 5.
00:15:29.920And in that way, it is reflective of the gospel, which we see, as I said, throughout scripture, but specifically in the book of Revelation and the marriage supper.
00:15:39.840And so that definition of gender, that definition of marriage is so profound, so eternal, so spiritual.
00:15:49.360It's not just a couple verses that we can extract and say, well, maybe that doesn't really apply today.
00:15:58.080No, this goes all the way back to the very beginning and carries us through God's plan of redemption.
00:16:03.980It matters so much that we get this right to God.
00:16:07.200That's how much he emphasizes it throughout scripture.
00:16:10.720And so for President Biden to say to a person who thinks that they're the opposite sex, who are made in the image of God, well, that is a half truth.
00:16:19.960It is absolutely true that people who are deceived about their gender or who are deceiving others about their gender are made in the image of God.
00:17:05.520But it's not enough to tell someone who thinks that they are the opposite sex or who pretends to be the opposite sex that they are made in the image of God.
00:17:42.680That doesn't negate the gender binary.
00:17:45.000There are people who are born with one leg, but human beings are still bipeds.
00:17:50.640And so, yes, those people are also made in the image of God.
00:17:54.160Every single human is made in the image of God.
00:17:56.460That is the radical message of equality that absolutely transformed the world after God established, after Jesus established the church.
00:18:06.120And so, President Biden and his handlers, they're using this kind of language to try to manipulate the mushy middle Christians into believing that to affirm the imago Dei in someone, to affirm someone's dignity,
00:18:24.260you must also affirm this lie, this destructive, deadly lie, that they can change their body to be the opposite sex, that they can identify as something other than what they are.
00:19:22.120They have a certain purpose, a certain telos.
00:19:25.680But for some reason, when it comes to male and female, that just goes out the window.
00:19:30.600We believe that our bodies tell us nothing.
00:19:33.120Whereas we look at a bird, and we understand that the wings tell us that that bird can probably fly, depending on the kind of bird that it is.
00:19:42.020But when we look at the human body, even though we see two different kinds of human bodies, these people say, well, there's no telos.
00:19:55.740We can be whoever we want to be by declaration or identification or feeling that our bodies are completely arbitrary.
00:20:04.020This is a very much like a dualistic, she describes, and kind of Gnostic way of thinking, that the material world is really arbitrary and bends to the will of our minds or the feelings of our hearts.
00:20:44.040He was tempted in every way as we are, yet was without sin.
00:20:48.520And so we see that embodiment, that the flesh, that human beings, that bodies matter so much to God, so much so that we will experience a resurrection of the bodies.
00:21:00.480And so even eternally, the body matters.
00:21:03.740So this is a very worldly idea, a very pagan idea, that the body doesn't matter, that only what we feel and think on the inside is what matters.
00:21:14.720And that, again, the material world and our bodies don't tell us anything that's not the Christian worldview.
00:21:21.620The Christian worldview says the body matters very much.
00:27:21.500Karine Jean-Pierre, on Transgender Day of Visibility, the Biden-Harris administration honors the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans
00:27:41.080and reaffirms our nation's commitment to form a more perfect union where all people are treated equally.
00:27:46.480Okay, so basically saying the same thing.
00:27:49.780There are contributions by men and women who might think that they are the opposite sex or want other people to think that,
00:27:56.540but there are no contributions by people by so-called transgender people because there's no such actual thing as transgenderism.
00:28:06.300And some people get mad when I say that.
00:28:08.460But in reality, there's no such thing as transgenderism.
00:28:13.560There are people who think that they are the opposite sex,
00:28:16.580but there is not a real concept of being the opposite sex or being the opposite gender.
00:28:24.000Again, we can't separate those two categories.
00:28:27.540And like, let's just back up a little bit.
00:28:30.560This day, I don't even want to call it a holiday,
00:28:33.720although you could probably call it a holiday because it is holy according to the left-wing religion.
00:28:39.820It certainly is much holier than Easter.
00:28:43.320Transgender Day of Visibility was started on March 31st, 2009.
00:29:38.160The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter, which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, banning sacred truth and tradition, while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as Transgender Day is outrageous and abhorrent.
00:29:51.420The American people are taking note, which is, of course, exactly true.
00:29:56.760And he's referring to the reporting that the White House has banned religious Easter eggs from the from the art contest.
00:30:04.700And Biden replied that he's thoroughly uninformed.
00:30:27.760I don't know if this if you know if this is true or not, but I did read that the White House in the past has banned religious Easter eggs from the art contest.
00:31:27.260And with wars and conflict taking a toll on innocent lives around the world, we renew our commitment to work for peace, security and dignity for all people from our family to yours.
00:31:37.240Like I would give them credit where credit was due if they did not also put out their silly declaration, basically calling people who say that men cannot become women extremists.
00:31:49.520I would say this is a pretty good for president.
00:32:01.240One group that they are assigning to come up with the language for the Trans Day of Visibility.
00:32:07.520The other group that is in charge, probably some evangelicals for Biden person who was in charge of coming up with the language for Easter.
00:32:17.460And so they are just hoping that those two messages are received by the right people to try to make everyone happy and to try to trick the Christians over here into thinking that President Biden cares at all about Christianity and cares at all about the rights and the protections of Christians because he very obviously doesn't.
00:32:38.640But if it hadn't been for the Trans Day of Visibility stuff, I would say that this is a pretty good statement.
00:32:45.000But of course, in light of everything else, it is absolutely phony and it shouldn't be given any credibility at all.
00:32:52.040Now, I will say that President Biden had a much longer statement for Ramadan, the Muslim holiday, than he had for Easter.
00:33:03.640Very long statement, and I'm not even going to read the whole thing.
00:33:07.640So he says tonight as the new crescent moon marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Jill and Ixin, our best wishes and prayers to Muslims across our country and around the world.
00:33:17.040The sacred month is a time for reflection and renewal.
00:33:19.420This year, it comes at a moment of immense pain.
00:33:22.360The war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people.
00:33:28.120Okay, there are also Muslims in Israel, but that's so strange just to mention and mentions the loss of life there and talks about how American Muslims have been affected by this when really it's American Jews who have been forced to bear the brunt of the
00:33:48.780anti-Jew hatred of the anti-Jew hatred of American Muslims as that's going on in Israel and Gaza, not American Muslims.
00:33:57.480And then he goes on and on and on and on, and he's saying that they are establishing an immediate and sustained ceasefire for at least six weeks and part of a deal to release hostages, of course, honoring Ramadan.
00:34:12.220Here at home, we have seen an appalling resurgence of hate and violence towards Muslim Americans.
00:34:15.760Again, like I have not seen Muslim Americans forced to take refuge in their university campus library because the Jews on campus are harassing them and chasing them down.
00:34:33.640But that has happened to Jews on college campuses.
00:34:40.060And I have not seen Jews taking down any pro-Palestine signage across the country, but I have seen pro-Palestinian activists taking down the signage that raises awareness for the Israeli refugees in America.
00:34:57.560So taking down the signs in America, that is.
00:35:00.420And so I'm just not sure where the statement is coming from.
00:35:03.780My administration is developing the first ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia and related forms of bias and discrimination, to take on hate against Muslim Sikh, South Asian and Arab American communities.
00:35:55.500Let's see who else had something to say about all of this.
00:35:59.200Of course, the secretary of health and human services, Javier Becerra.
00:36:03.200He said that he's thinking about our country's great transgender, non-binary, and two-spirit leaders who epitomize resilience, progress, and joy.
00:36:43.880On this Transgender Day of Visibility, we must continue to make focused and ongoing efforts to end inequities, eliminate the impacts of injustice, and improve access to care for everyone.
00:36:59.000Today of all days, I stand proud and visible with my fellow transgender Americans.
00:37:30.240And we're supposed to take this seriously, and other countries are supposed to take this seriously.
00:37:40.080And I'm sorry, if you were just now tuning into Relatable for the first time, and you were like, wow, this is like, this is harsh, this is intense.
00:37:50.520It's not, because these people are forging an evil, evil, barbaric, body-mutilating movement in the United States that affects vulnerable children.
00:38:05.300If you are more concerned about us making light of this, laughing at this, mocking this, criticizing this, condemning this, than you are what they are doing, than your priorities are out of whack,
00:38:16.680and you've been more affected by worldliness, than you have the Word of God.
00:38:21.740And plus, we've been dealing with this, okay, not everyone has been paying attention for as long as, you know, the people in this space have.
00:38:30.100And so we've been dealing with this craziness for a long time.
00:38:32.560And so in order to, like, stay sane ourselves, sometimes we just have to laugh.
00:38:36.540So we'll give you the biblical response, but we're also going to give you, like, the lighthearted response sometimes.
00:38:41.320Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, he, this is, so, Secretary of Education, just think about the effect that that has on our country and on our young people.
00:39:32.540He was on MSNBC on Monday saying that we are, we as conservatives, to criticize Biden's transgender proclamation, we are wrong theologically, wrong morally, and absolutely stupid politically.
00:39:47.260That actually the Jesus they celebrate today would be inclusive of the transgender community and would be supportive of the transgender community and command all Christians, including Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, and others who celebrate today, that in fact they should love the transgender community as they love their own God.
00:40:05.480We should love the transgender community as we love our own God.
00:40:19.520He's talking to the Pharisees, and in context they are speaking of divorce, but in talking about the importance of marriage, he goes to the definition of marriage, which again is founded all the way in creation.
00:40:29.420So here's what Jesus says, Matthew 19, 4 through 5.
00:40:31.780He answered, have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
00:40:46.140So people say, well, Jesus never talked about marriage.
00:41:35.280And so Jesus is very clear about that.
00:41:38.060And these people are typically some kind of red-letter Christians, although they don't even accept all the red letters because this would be a red letter.
00:41:45.320But they try to separate Jesus of the New Testament and some of the things that he said from the God of the Old Testament, the rest of Scripture.
00:42:19.480So whatever is said in the Old Testament as God's word, Jesus says and affirms, too, 100%.
00:42:26.080And so these people who say, oh, Jesus would accept the transgender community, no.
00:42:32.680Yes, he would love them as image bearers of God, but he would love them enough to speak truth to them and to call them to repentance because he cares about their salvation.
00:43:23.640And, you know, the founder of this day, the Trans Day of Visibility, this Crandall Crocker person,
00:43:31.580he actually, I think, sums it up very well, what those who like Biden, like this David Jolly person, what they're trying to do.
00:43:40.560Here's what he says that he had to do when it came to his so-called gender identity.
00:43:47.980He wrote an article for a magazine in 1998 titled Religion and Identity, about his struggle as a Jewish boy claiming to actually be a nice Jewish girl.
00:43:56.300He says, rather than trying to fit me into my religion, I began to experiment with fitting my religion into me.
00:44:02.380I was not so concerned about being a good Jew.
00:44:04.420I was more concerned about being a transsexual gay woman who was also Jewish.
00:44:08.540I began to pick and choose which parts of Judaism fit in with who I was.
00:44:13.660I became the main part of the equation.
00:44:15.640Well, I am now a woman who loves other women.
00:44:18.620I am Jewish, and I also go to a Unitarian Universalist church.
00:44:23.580That's exactly what everyone is trying to do, fit their religion into what they feel and what they want and the sin that they have chosen.
00:44:30.100There was this exchange on MSNBC that I saw that was great.
00:44:35.040It was floating around on Twitter where a Catholic priest, I don't remember who he was, he called Biden out for this and called him a cafeteria Catholic.
00:44:42.620Of course, like the female Episcopalian priest tries to like run in and protect Joe Biden.
00:44:56.140And that's what a lot of people do, of course.
00:44:58.120And none of us is perfectly sanctified.
00:45:00.260But we have to start with the belief, the knowledge that God is authoritative, that his word is authoritative, and spend our lives through the power of the Holy Spirit conforming what we think, say, and do to that standard.