Southern Baptists Urge States to Ban 

Gender Transition Procedures on Children

Messengers to this week’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans passed a resolution labeling gender transition a “direct assault on God’s created order” and urging states to ban the procedure when it involves children. 

The 700-word amendment, “On Opposing ‘Gender Transitions,’” passed easily by a show of hands and says the Bible “teaches that the differences between men and women are complementary, determined at conception, immutable, rooted in God’s design, and most clearly revealed in bodily differences (Genesis 1:28; Psalm 100:3), not in self-defined and ultimately false notions of ‘gender identity.’”