Gender theory, or theories about gender, began with the idea of a "gender identity" based on a variety of factors, including one's biological sex and the sex-typing and cultural conditioning one is exposed to through family and society. Today, this notion is widely accepted. But what Church representatives are claiming is that there is widespread acceptance of something quite different--the ability to make up your own gender because you "feel" like it. Seriously, how many people do you know like this?  This not only displays a misunderstanding of gender theory, it also insults the relatively small number of transgendered people who go through the long and medically challenging process of transitioning. The Church has bought the "cultural Marxism" line on gender theory at its own peril. Eventually, these claims will be revealed as straw men. When will the Church stop being behind the 8 ball on gender?