Jenner Identity
A new era of acceptance for sexual relativism was inaugurated this week with the announcement of Vanity Fair’s upcoming issue, which will feature a cover story showcasing former Olympian Bruce Jenner’s official reveal as a “woman.”
Transgenderism—like egalitarianism—is ostensibly an emancipation from oppressive traditionalist categories. But it’s actually parasitically reliant upon traditional sexual conventions. Those who attempt to change sexes still feel the need to look and act masculine or feminine. Bruce Jenner’s transformation was not just a change of mind, it involved cosmetic surgery and hormone therapy. He also changed his name to something feminine (“Caitlyn”). Transgender rhetoric may be progressive, but its optics are confusingly traditional.
Witness the new Vanity Fair cover photo: Jenner is presented essentially as a supermodel. The wardrobe (or lack thereof) and composition intentionally accentuate the feminine characteristics Jenner is trying to assume. He is depicted as demure, voluptuous, even seductive (and thus objectified, take note). While this is the antithesis of manhood, it’s also the antithesis of androgyny or the rugged feminism of the modern age. Traditional ideals of beauty and sexuality are in the background here, albeit in twisted form. And far from being seen as objectionable, all this is deemed “heroic” and praiseworthy in the media.
The shape of Jenner’s “identity transformation” is an ironic revelation that human sexuality involves biological, aesthetic, and other natural givens that can’t be eradicated, even by those engaging in self-destructive revolt against divinely-created order. Though we may try to rebel against our Creator and fashion our own reality, we cannot transcend our created nature. We cannot escape living in God’s world and functioning according to the categories He has established.
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