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February 9, 2026 Paid subscribers

Pronouns, Gender, and the War on the Body

Why the AI Age Is Making the Trans Debate Impossible to Avoid

We come into the world through the body.
We learn through the body.
We encounter others, culture, and even God through the body.

This is the starting point of any serious Christian anthropology, articulated most clearly in Theology of the Body: the human person is not a soul inside a body, nor a mind using a body, but a unified being—body and soul together—through which meaning is revealed.

The body is not accidental to who we are.
It is sacramental.

And yet, for several decades now, Western society has been moving in the opposite direction.

From the Body as Gift to the Body as Problem

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