Human beings do not consistently fall into two distinct categories of gender with no blurriness or apparent exceptions. I\u2019m not thinking in particular of a female athlete<\/a> who has been accused of being a man (although I was<\/i> surprised to learn how common such accusations apparently are in athletics, and even more struck to find that the same topic was being blogged about by AKMA<\/a> as I was writing this). There was, however, a TV show recently about someone who was born with a not that uncommon condition, namely having two X and one Y chromosome<\/a>. Is such a person male or female? Is the question even meaningful? Would most Christians such a person free (having apparently been created both male and female) to persue a relationship with someone of either gender? Or is such a person (perhaps living up to the ideal of Paul<\/a>) \u201cneither male nor female\u201d? Or are such questions unanswerable?<\/p>\n If we want to make this discussion even more interesting, I\u2019ve had people claim in comments on this blog that Jesus must have had two X chromosomes and thus have been genetically female, since he had no human father. I\u2019ve also had someone recently emphasize that Jesus did experience sexual attraction. This combination leads to some very interesting and\/or bizarre questions, but ones that perhaps could lead to fruitful conversations about sexuality and gender from a Christian perspective. Would the combination of these two beliefs lead to the view that Jesus, although he presumably had male sex organs, was technically a Lesbian <\/em>if he was attracted to women? Or does it mean that Jesus would have had to be attracted to men<\/em> in order to be considered a heterosexual?<\/p>\n
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