Men CAN Get Pregnant. The Bible Says So.
Progressives often claim that men can get pregnant. What does the Bible say? The answer may surprise you.
Can Men Get Pregnant?
Yes, it’s possible for men to become pregnant and give birth to children of their own. In fact, it’s probably a lot more common than you might think. In order to explain, we’ll need to break down some common misconceptions about how we understand the term “man.”
That’s how writer KC Clements begins to answer the question, “Can Men Get Pregnant?” in a 2018 Healthline article. Unless you just awoke from something like a decade-long coma, in which you remained unaware of now-mainstream transgender ideology, you can tell where that answer is going.
Clements claims that not everyone who was “assigned male at birth” is a man, because that person may identify as something other than a man—a woman, or something else entirely. Likewise, someone who was “assigned female at birth” may not identify as a woman, but as something else. In the case, then, of those with reproductive organs (traditionally, “women”) who self-identify as men, it is said that those men can get pregnant.
Of course, that’s not just Clements’s idea. A great swath of our culture agrees, or at least pretends to. Christians like myself, though, strive to never affirm something unless it is compatible with the teachings of the Bible. So, does the Bible say that men can get pregnant?
What the Bible Says
Many Christians will be surprised to learn that, in fact, the Bible does say that men can get pregnant, and quite explicitly. Here’s the verse:
“Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.” (Psalm 7:14)
Admittedly, that’s probably not the type of pregnancy you had in mind. But, ironically, it is the type of pregnancy that every transgender person experiences. I’ll explain.
This verse refers to “the wicked man.” In context, it is specifically a man who is unrepentant before God (see 7:12)—that is, someone who refuses to turn from his own sin and submit to God’s authority and commands.
Whatever else can be said of transgenderism, it must be said that it is unrepentance.
Why is that? It’s because—I’ll say it plainly—the Bible does not in fact agree with Clements and his (or her?) fellow ideologues on the matter of gender. Rather, God created mankind as male and female, man and woman (Genesis 1:27; 2:21-24), and He gave clear roles to each sex (see 1 Corinthians 11:3; 14:34; Ephesians 5:22-33; 1 Timothy 2:8-15; 3:1-13; Titus 1:6-9; 2:2-8; etc.).
There is not so much as a hint that someone’s sex and gender could be separate from one another—or that these should even be considered separate categories.
God’s design is what it is: male and female. Man and woman.
Transgenderism is a refusal—and, I’d even grant, an inability—to turn from one’s own way and submit to God’s design.
So, what does Psalm 7:14 say about such an unrepentant person? Three things.
The Three Steps of the Unrepentant
First, he “conceives evil.”
When a woman conceives a child, a new life begins, and natural processes set about to grow and develop that living child. Likewise, when an unrepentant man conceives evil, that evil has entered into existence and is set on a track to grow.
Of course, a woman cannot conceive on her own. She needs another party involved. Likewise, the man who conceives evil probably had some help—some outside influences, which combined with his own natural inclinations in order to bring “life” to some wickedness.
In other words, the seed of evil that has been planted in him may not have been an idea original to him, but he embraced it. That is surely the case with transgenderism. It has an element of “social contagion,” to which some people may naturally be more disposed than others.
Second, he “is pregnant with mischief.”
Mischief is trouble, internal and external. As the seed of evil grows, it causes trouble for the man and for those around him.
That is definitely true of transgenderism, as a person who becomes convinced that he should be the opposite gender experiences great distress, and upends his entire life—and the lives of those closest to him.
Finally, he “gives birth to lies.”
The result of an evil that has grown and survived the stages of mischief, is deception. First and foremost, self-deception. The unrepentant man becomes convinced that what he is doing is not actually bad, but good. Then also, he may convince others. But Isaiah 5:20 says, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
This, too, is true of transgenderism. Trans ideology is predicated upon lies about human nature and human autonomy. It says we are not beholden to God’s design and God’s will for our lives, and we can determine for ourselves what we are.
These lies are the conclusion of every person who identifies as transgender, and they are the seed that is planted in the minds of others who are likewise being led astray to conceive this evil, or to affirm it. Thus, the cycle of “life” continues.
And what is the end of all this? What does this “wicked man” come to? The psalm tells us in the following verses:
“He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.” (Psalm 7:15-16)
A life of evil, mischief, and lies always ends in ruin—if not in this life, in the next. What, then, is the solution? Is there any hope for something better? Well, if the problem is unrepentance, then the solution is obvious: repentance.
Those who have bought the lies of transgenderism must turn from this sin and submit to the will of God in their lives.
A Word To The Non-Transgender
The sin of transgenderism is a dramatic one (it’s hard to hide), and it has unique consequences. But we who do not identify as transgender and do not affirm it can’t just look down our noses at those who do, pat ourselves on the back, and let ourselves off the hook.
While Psalm 7 speaks to the transgender crowd, it also speaks to the rest of us. In your own life, what sin have you conceived that you’re allowing to grow and develop? What mischief has your sin been causing in your life and the lives of those around you? What lies have you convinced yourself of, or tried to, in order to justify that sin? I myself am wrestling with the unpleasant answers to these questions.
Let us all—transgender or otherwise—examine ourselves. For those of us who believe in Jesus, let us, with God’s help, “lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…” (Hebrews 12:1).
And for those who don’t believe in Jesus… well, you’d best get believing.
Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.