{"id":20566,"date":"2020-03-02T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T20:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=20566"},"modified":"2022-06-19T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T20:14:20","slug":"men-and-women-cannot-change-genders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/men-and-women-cannot-change-genders\/","title":{"rendered":"Men and Women Cannot Change Genders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t

Source:<\/strong> “New Israeli Research Reveals that Men Are Men and Women Are Women<\/a>,” CBNNews.com, 13 May 2017.<\/p>\n

“… researchers found that a man cannot become a woman by simply “identifying” as one and vice versa.”<\/p>\n

“Geneticists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science discovered certain genes that are only expressed in women, while others are only expressed in men. “<\/p>\n

“6,500 genes with activity that was biased toward one sex or the other in at least one tissue, adding to the already major biological differences between men and women.”<\/p>\n

“Essentially, their research means more than 21 percent of the entire human genome, which is composed of about 30,000 genes, are based on sex — something a sex change operation and hormones cannot replace.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: <\/strong>Moran Gershoni and Shmuel Pietrokovski, “The landscape of sex-differential transcriptome and its consequent selection in human adults<\/a>,” BMC Biology, 2017.<\/p>\n

“Dozens of genes with no direct association to reproduction were also identified as sex-specific. Many of these genes are expressed in skin tissues, are linked to hairiness … , and are likely involved in hair dimorphism in women and men. Other non-reproductive genes do not seem to share common features with each other, but are each interesting on their own, for example, the moderately men-specific growth hormone GHRH and the men-specific calcitonin-related polypeptide alpha (CALCA) … The latter is involved in calcium regulation and functions as a vasodilator … The genes for both seem specific to adult men, although they are related to apparently general biological processes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since it is not possible to change your gender, all that transgenderism does is put on a disguise regarding the true nature of the person, but like all lies, it is incomplete.<\/p>\n

“Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him — a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all<\/em>” (Colossians 3:9-11).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: “New Israeli Research Reveals that Men Are Men and Women Are Women,” CBNNews.com, 13 May 2017. “… researchers found that a man cannot become a woman by simply “identifying” as one and vice versa.” “Geneticists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science discovered certain genes that are only expressed in women, while others are only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[305],"class_list":["post-20566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-transgenderism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26401,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/study-of-identical-twins-show-homosexuality-is-not-genetic\/","url_meta":{"origin":20566,"position":0},"title":"Study of Identical Twins Show Homosexuality Is Not Genetic","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Holland Davis, \"Identical twin studies prove homosexuality is not genetic.\" 13 May 2013. 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