Journal: Eikon
Volume: EIKON 03:2 (Fall 2021)
Article: The Spiritual Care Of Sisters In The Transgender Age
Author: Megan basham

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The Spiritual Care Of Sisters In The Transgender Age

Megan basham

Megan Basham is a reporter for The Daily Wire and the author of Beside Every Successful Man: A Woman’s Guide to Having It All.

Electronic Edition Editor’s Note: The original print edition did not have the corresponding footnotes within the text. Footnotes were simply left at the bottom of the pages where it is assumed they were originally located. This edition follows that original print pattern.

“Does Bluey being blue ruin gender stereotypes?”

This was the question a reader asked after I recommended the Australian preschool cartoon “Bluey,” a show about a six-year-old puppy and the make-believe games she enjoys with her younger sister and parents. As I said in my WORLD Magazine review of the show, the Heeler household at the center of the stories, being modern city dwellers, are quite a bit removed from the Leave it To Beaver model of yesteryear. Yet, whether intentionally or not, their interactions mirror biblical gender paradigms within the framework of how nuclear families live today.

Dad, the primary breadwinner, is an archaeologist who often works from home, thus providing childcare for his two daughters whenever his wife is away at her part-time job. Yet his parenting style is distinctly fatherly—teasing, tough, and a little more rambunctious than Mom’s more careful, nurturing approach. Based on the models they’ve seen at home, when the neighborhood children play “mums and dads” the girls select “husbands” who demonstrate a masculine protective streak.

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In short, in an era of transgender indoctrination where Muppet Baby Gonzo demonstrates his genderfluidity by wearing a dress and Blues Clues tutors three- to five-year-olds in the meaning of “non-binary,” Bluey is a rare gem that closely represents the family as instituted in Genesis 2.

That said, the title character strongly resembles her father rather than her mother. Further, being a dog, she doesn’t wear dresses, bows, or other overtly feminine trappings. Like all the other canine characters, she has an androgynously doggy name (just as her parents—Bandit and Chilli—and her sister, Bingo, do).

The only thing to identify Bluey as a girl, then, is the fact that, well, she simply is one. And so, this young dad told me he was having a debate with another Christian father over whether Bluey’s creators were sending a poor message to little audiences by not being more obvious about her sex.