Canada's Pierre Poilievre Shows How to Respond to Weird Gender Nonsense
The Conservative Party contender for Prime Minister shares a controversial, obvious truth.
Fun fact: Nonsense is nonsense. And the idea that any infinite number of genders exist is one of the biggest piles of nonsense sold of late. Biological sex and gender are not difficult to figure out. You are either male or female. That’s the way God created us (Genesis 1:27). Full stop.
Now, the way we approach the transgender controversies ought to be done with thoughtfulness and, yes, compassion. If opposition to transgender ideology fills you with hatred toward trans people, you need to repent and pull back. But it is not hatred to simply speak the truth. You cannot switch genders or identify as some totally new gender, regardless of how much one sincerely believes it to be so. Again, be compassionate to transgender individuals, but don’t feed into their false and, indeed, inauthentic ideas of themselves. Nonsense shouldn’t be given credibility.
Over in Canada, one such man who still sees nonsense as nonsense is Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre is the leader of the Conservative Party in his country. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepping down, Poilievre has his eyes on the prime ministership. But rest assured, this article will not be diving into Canadian politics. (I am grossly unqualified to form any strong opinions about the country that loves all things maple so much.) But Poilievre recently demonstrated a rather impressive response to the craze over all the weird gender stuff.
In an interview on the Canadian news channel CP24, Poilievre was asked about President Donald Trump’s recent executive order affirming only two sexes. The interviewer wanted to know whether Poilievre agreed with the U.S. position on the reality of biological sex.
“Well, I don’t know,” Poilievre responded plainly, “Do you have any other genders that you’d like to name?” He went on, “I’m not aware of any other genders than men and women. I mean, if you have any other that you want me to consider, you’re welcome to tell me right now.”
This answer prompted the interviewer to awkwardly state that well, he personally was a man, but other people would say they are “gender-neutral” or a “trans person.” He then asked Poilievre again if he agreed with the new American government that there are only two sexes.
Piolievre answered, “I’m only aware of two, but, I mean, if you have—if you come up with another list, then you’re welcome to do that. But I’m aware of two.” He concluded his remarks on this subject by stating he believes the government should just leave everyone alone over gender identity.
Of course, LGBTQ advocates, such as Helen Kennedy, have forcefully condemned Piolievre for controversially stating an obvious truth. Kennedy asserted Piolievre was “Denying the existence of trans and gender-diverse people,” which she says, “contributes to discrimination, hate and violence. Trans and gender-diverse people have always and will always exist.”
Unfortunately, responses like those of Kennedy’s are far too common in our culture. If you state human beings are only created as male and female, then you are effectively “denying the existence” of people who have their own ideas regarding their gender. But this is simply untrue.
When you tell the truth about biological sex, you are not insisting that someone, say, Rachel Levine is a figment of our collective imagination. What you are insisting is that Levine is a human being created in the image of God as a man, a biological male. Levine may honestly believe that he is a woman (and other people may honestly believe they are neither a man nor a woman), but that doesn’t change who he truly is.
Transgender activists like to insist people who mentally reject their biological sex are living as their “authentic selves,” but such a distorted self-identity is anything but authentic.
Trans people exist, but they are individual men and women who have sadly made their gender—in their cases, genders of their own imaginations—the most important part of their identity and have incorporated lies into their outlook on themselves. The apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (ESV). Our ethnicities, social statuses, and even biological sexes do not define us. As Christians, we find our identity in Christ, and so can anyone else who will trust in Him as Lord and Savior. God created us as we are for a reason, and when we accept His personal design for us instead of creating our own fleeting identities, we will experience true joy and peace.
Poilievre did an outstanding job revealing how absurd and nonsensical gender ideology truly is with his simple answer, framed as if his interviewer knew something about human beings that he lacked knowledge of. Not only is transgenderism a denial of reality and a rejection of God’s creation, it’s a very illogical denial and rejection too. We need to get busy with providing trans people the care they actually need, but we cannot exchange truth for lies in doing so.
We ought to follow Pierre Piolievre’s example and start telling obvious truth among ourselves, no matter how controversial the culture deems it.