{"id":17613,"date":"2017-10-05T23:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=17613"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:39:46","slug":"an-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=17613","title":{"rendered":"An Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17666\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>An increasingly common claim these days is that male and female are one and the same. The denial that there are any real male-female differences rooted in biology has led to the astonishing belief that men and women are not born male or female \u2013 they are whatever gender they say they are. In <a href=\"http:\/\/prageru.us11.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=6b7cf34895ad2d3096f3d14a4&amp;id=71857cfe32&amp;e=eb9a4da73b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">this week\u2019s video<\/span><\/a>, author Ashley McGuire tackles this sensitive contemporary issue and explains who gets hurt when we deny one of life\u2019s enduring realities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yAAlFya89aw\" width=\"760\" height=\"440\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/courses\/political-science\/gender-identity-why-all-confusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Prager University<\/span><\/a>-All rights reserved<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F17613&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F17613&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increasingly common claim these days is that male and female are one and the same. The denial that there are any real male-female differences rooted in biology has led to the astonishing belief that men and women are not born male or female \u2013 they are whatever gender they say they are. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":17666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"wp-image-borders","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/large_male-and-female-he-created-them-in-the-image-of-god-p453ynou.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bgnN-4A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}