How has this question arisen? 

Apple released a new emoji earlier this year for a pregnant man. As well, the leader of the opposition in Australia stated that he wasn’t ‘woke’, and that men couldn’t be pregnant, even though the official and celebrated position of his political party, Labor, is that men can be pregnant.

In 2014, according to Medicare, 54 men claimed rebates for medical services related to their pregnancy. 

Then I understood the context. Those  FTM/Female-to-male transgender persons, who still had a uterus, could become pregnant, and therefore declare that in the census. 

I believe that God cares for each one of us at the very core of our being, even deeper than our sexuality, at the level of our soul.  

Jesus did also. That’s why, at great personal cost, he gave his very life for us, to bring us to God.  

At the same time, he also made statements about his creation. This is one that may challenge some of us. 

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female…'”

Matthew 19:4 (NIV)(http://www.laridian.com)

What do you think?

Freedom of public discussion? 

Some said on the day that we can talk about everything! What’s the problem?

Others said we can’t, and that there are many things we can’t talk about.

I decided that the former must be people who agree with the mainstream media woke views, and so for them there really isn’t a problem. The latter don’t, and so they do have a problem!

What we say or don’t say has consequences. Nevertheless, public discussion of important issues is necessary for seeking wise ways ahead for issues in society.

Even beyond this are the words of Jesus regarding all of what we say…

But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

Matthew 12:36 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

What do you think?

Surely there is more to my life and identity than just my sexuality? 

We can do better than that, can’t we? 

What if I didn’t live in such an affluent country? Food, drinks, freedom, individualism, and employment as given ‘entitlements’?

What if I didn’t have as much education, and was not able to ‘call the shots’ in my life so easily as I do now? Would that make a difference? 

Is it because of privileges like these that make it possible to have my sexuality as the main defining identity in my life?  

I’m interested in what others think, and how you got there.