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#70: Dangerous Faith– Don't Use the Word "Cisgender"

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Nate Williams talks about why Christians should not use the word "cisgender," along with the importance of paying attention to language. Before you know it, the very words you use will be set ideologically set against your worldview without you even realizing it.

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Nate Williams:

Nate Williams, here you might not realize it, but I have two arms, two eyes, a nose, ears. I have 10 fingers and 10 toes. Nice to meet you. Now, if I introduced myself like that you might think I'm pretty strange, or maybe you're friends with me and you think I'm strange anyways, but that's besides the point. You kind of look at me and you tell me well, nate, you don't need to tell us that you have two arms, two eyes, the nose, ears, 10 toes, 10 fingers, etc. Because that's normal. Not that everyone has those things, because there are abnormalities, there are, I guess, mutations and different things that can happen to someone, where some people might be born with one arm or no arms, or some people might be born without a nose, etc. Etc. So that does happen. But by and large, the average normal person, that's just their description. So I don't have to introduce myself that way. Nate Williams, dangerous faith and I have two knees. You look at me and that's kind of unnecessary. That's normal.

Nate Williams:

Ladies and gentlemen, dear fellow Christians, assuming that most of my audience are Christians, we have to stop using the word cisgender, or maybe you haven't really used that word much at all. Don't use it if that's you. If you are using it, don't, and if you haven't started yet, don't is what I'm saying. Here's why. Well, what is cisgenderism? The definition of cisgenderism is this is online identifying as having a gender that corresponds to the sex one has been assigned at birth, or not, transgender. So basically, if you are a male, physically, like biologically, you have the male body parts, and then you also feel like a male, like your mind, your body, your consciousness, they all line up. You feel male and are male biologically. Your cisgender, cis, or same Same thing as a woman. If you are a biological female, you have the requisite parts and you also feel female, then congratulations, you are supposedly cisgender and that's kind of what you're called. You're a cisgender person. That's to be compared with trans people, that biologically they might be one way, however, the way they feel is the other way. So they could be a male stuck in a female's body, or they're a female stuck in a male's body, and that's where the trans comes in, because things are switched up inside of themselves. Now, the reason why cisgenderism exists that word cis or sane is it comes from a worldview that's trying to normalize transgender ideology. So, for example, if someone's transgender, well, we don't want them to feel different or left out. So we're going to come up with a word that describes people who are normal and healthy. Well, they're cis genders, with the goal being to normalize transgenderism, because you're either trans or you're cis.

Nate Williams:

But here's the problem with that Transgenderism, or gender dysphoria, is a mental illness. People who have gender dysphoria again, things just aren't lining up and what they require is not a celebration of normality. No, you don't do that. That's cruel, that's unloving. You want them to seek professional medical assistance. That's what you need to do.

Nate Williams:

It's like depression and anxiety. If someone's depressed, you don't celebrate the depression. Oh, look, that's so wonderful, that's great. You're depressed? Yeah, you don't normalize it. You say, because I love you and I care about you, I want you to go seek help. I want you to seek proper spiritual medical assistance for what you're going through. Same thing with, let's say, anorexia. If someone is anorexic, you don't celebrate it, you don't try to make it normalized. No, that's evil, that's cruel, that's unloving. You say, if you're in the appropriate space, you have the appropriate relationship to do this, you go to them and you say because I love you, I want you to seek help. That's the loving thing to do with those who are suffering from gender dysphoria. You don't normalize a mental illness and that's the goal of this whole creation of cisgenderism. Friends, cis is unnecessary. It is normal and healthy to match up your body and your mind. For biological men to feel like men, for biological women to feel like women, that's normal. Just like my example at the beginning of this episode, how I don't need to introduce myself as having two arms and two ears and ten fingers. I don't need to introduce myself as having those things because, unless something has gone wrong, that's normal. It is the same thing with cisgenderism it's redundant, you don't need it.

Nate Williams:

And the whole goal underlying the creation of that term was to normalize transgenderism. Because the thinking is oh look, if we're going to call trans people trans, well, we don't want to single them out as being odd or weird or different. Well, we need to call cis people cis, cis being if you haven't seen this word cis Well, okay, we've got to call trans people trans. We have to call cis people cis, so that no one's left out or made to feel different. So, as Christians, our responses don't use the term. Now I'm not going to go.

Nate Williams:

Some more conservative commentators they'll say cis is like a slur against straight people, not straight people. It's a slur against people who are normally healthy. No, I wouldn't go that far. I've heard that from some commentators Don't use the word cis, because it's a slur against us. No, no, maybe Ozilon Musk, maybe it was Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire. I'm not going to go that far.

Nate Williams:

What I would say is it's completely unnecessary and there's a worldview underlying it. We have to be very careful about language. I guess this leads me into part two. Part one was talking about cisgenderism. Part two is about language. It's a very tricky world we live in, where some language seems innocuous, innocent, don't worry about it. But, for example, pronouns she her, he, him. Well, the problem is underlying that worldview is a world where you can be something other than what you are. Friends, some things are fixed and as an example of this, let's take transgender surgeries. We are expected to accommodate the way people feel because feelings are sincere.

Nate Williams:

But if I go up to you and I say, hey, I'm a six foot five African-American woman, what would you look at me? How would you look at me? What would you say? You'd be like Nate. If you're sincere in this belief, I think something's wrong, like you might want to go get that checked out, because height is not up to interpretation or feelings. I am not a six foot five African-American woman. Now let's see what else let's say age. Age is a big one, I identify. If I want a senior discount, I identify 75 years old. For the purposes of going out to eat, I want some sort of discount. And OK, what are you going to do then? I'm not 75 years old. So what happens? Age, again, another biological reality. It's not open to interpretation, it's not up to you and me. Your age is your age. You just do the math from your birthday and your birth year.

Nate Williams:

Another thing I'm thinking about is surgeries. Imagine if I'm overweight, let's say I'm morbidly obese, but I identify as a skinny person. It's how I feel, it's my truth. Well, guess what? If that's the way I feel, I expect you, the taxpayer, to pay for my health care, my weight reduction surgery Now, because you've got to help me live my truth. And if you're going to attach certain genitalia on me so that I can feel like a different gender, well, why won't you do these weight reduction surgeries? Because I identify as skinny? Do you love me? Do you care about me. If you don't help me, I'm going to go commit suicide Again.

Nate Williams:

Just some of the tactics you see from transgenderism. So I could go on and on and on about these things, the inherent contradictions with transgenderism and the absurdity. So again, part one I just talked about cisgenderism and how Christians should not use the term cis. It's nonsensical, it's not necessary. And then in part two, I guess I didn't really didn't get into it, but I want to talk about language.

Nate Williams:

You have to control the battle of language, be very careful, and I think that some people have been better at this than others. So, for example, gender-affirming care that's been a term used by the political left for transgender ideology. Gender-affirming care you need hormones, you need surgeries, you got to swap body parts, whatever. That's not gender-affirming care, that's gender mutilation, that's abuse. The gender-affirming care is the person that says, oh, if you're biologically a male, well, you're a male, you're biologically a female, you're a female. It is me, the Bible-believing Christian. I'm the one that's affirming gender. But again, the language battle is a little bit against us. We have to regain it. What's another one? Loving and affirming. There we go. The political left has grabbed the whole loving, supportive mantra as well where, oh, I'm loving you by affirming the way that you're living? No, that's not loving. It is the Bible-believing Christian that says we're all in sin, we've all messed up, we all need to repent and turn from our lifestyle that we're living and give it all to Christ. That's the loving thing to do. As someone who comes from an Orthodox church that holds to Scripture, that holds to some of the traditions that have gone back all the way to the early church, I'm the loving one because I'm sharing the truth. Now I need to do so graciously. But again, be wary of the language battle. We have to be careful.

Nate Williams:

I think of another example racism. Now, racism it's a simple concept. It's discriminating against someone on the basis of skin color or ethnicity or culture. It's just general discrimination because of those things. That's racism. But it's kind of been twisted to now.

Nate Williams:

For example, if you're white, you can be racist, right, because you're a colonizer, you're European, you've had the structures of power that have benefited you. But if you're not white, let's say, if you're black, or you're Hispanic or you're, insert some approved minority. This doesn't count for Jews and Asians, by the way. They're minorities, but they don't get to do this for other reasons I won't get into. But if you're part of an approved minority you can't be racist. The worst you can be is prejudice. And the reason why is when the definition of racism was attempted to be changed, it was against white people. But to be racist you also have to be in the majority, you have to be historically powerful. So in recent times it would be Europeans, it would be white people. In the West, those people could be racist.

Nate Williams:

No-transcript. If you were one of the persecuted, if you were one of the oppressed, you couldn't be racist. Obviously that's silly. Anyone can be racist. It's one of the oldest sins.

Nate Williams:

So again, language matters. Part one talked about cisgenderism and why that's not necessary. Part two is we have to be very careful not to lose the language battle at the offset, because then language is what you use to communicate. So if language has been turned against you and the basic terms that you use are against you, you've already lost because you can't communicate ideas. So don't fall for it. When it comes to the definition of love, don't do it. Affirming, don't do it. Racism, cisgenderism, all those things, don't let those words be twisted from the get-go, because then you've lost, because here's what happens then You're racist, you're hateful, you're not affirming, you reject, you're not loving, you hate, etc. All of a sudden. Well, you enter culture and you've allowed those definitions to be just accepted and you don't challenge them. You've already lost. So again, language battle. Be aware of it that as Christians, we're the loving ones. We tell people they need Jesus. We're against racism in all forms, not just when white people do it. When any other group does it, doesn't matter the skin color, etc. Etc.

Nate Williams:

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the episode. If you did, and if you're like, wow, this guy's terrible, I disagree with him, he's dumb. I actually want to know. Let me know your thoughts. You can reach out through social media. Dangerous faith. You can find it on the various platforms. We also have a YouTube channel. But also I don't do this a lot, but I'm looking to raise financial support for the ministry. We seek to share the gospel. We seek to help people build up their faith through biblical teaching. So if you'd be interested in monthly supporting us, I would greatly appreciate that. You can find out more information on our website, dangerousfaithnet. But anyways, until next time, nate Williams, glad to be with you. I'll talk with you later.