I am going to be pretty frank in this post. The topic is gender. It may just be me, but gender is something that seems to me to be simply black and white, you are either male or you are female. That is the way God made you in the beginning. In The Family: A Proclamation to the World it states, “Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.” I strongly believe that, and I also believe God doesn’t make mistakes.

So many studies have been done, and are being done, on gender. Traits that are more common in men or traits that are more common in women, the way each react to different situations, and more. Which is true, there are going to be some trait differences because we have different genetic make ups, we use different parts of our brains with some things, we have different instincts, etc. Differences that aren’t bad, they are good. The differences don’t mean one gender is above the other either. We are all equal in God’s eyes, male and female, just with different rolls.

I very much dislike the comment “I was born the wrong gender”. That is impossible. We were a gender before we were even conceived. We are the gender we are and that isn’t supposed to be changed. Each and every person who lives on this earth “has a divine nature and destiny”. God has a plan for each of us, and our gender is an essential beginning of that plan.