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A congressman’s courage in refusing to affirm the delusion of his transgender colleague, Rep. McBride, shows that telling the truth isn’t hateful, indecent, or intolerant but rather the bedrock of love.
The date was Tuesday, March 11, 2025. The scene was a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. The room was largely empty, with only a few members of Congress present.
I’ve worked in Congress before, and so I can tell you firsthand: Subcommittee hearings on “arms control and U.S. assistance to Europe” are hardly the normal venue for a cultural cage match over “transgender pronouns.”
Yet that’s exactly what unfolded when Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, the subcommittee chair, turned the microphone over to one of his colleagues with a simple recognition: “I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.”
This is the regular script used when the chairmen of full committees and subcommittees recognize other representatives for their five minutes of questioning the witnesses.
But no regular representative was being recognized here. This was Rep. Sarah (formerly Timothy) McBride — the first openly “transgender” member of Congress. In other words, McBride is a man pretending to be a woman.
The response from Rep. McBride was a smug retort: “Thank you, Madam Chair.” Cue the chaos.
Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., the ranking Democrat, immediately leapt in, demanding that Self repeat himself.
Self, unbowed, explained, “We have set the standard on the floor of the House.”
Keating interrupted him again, telling him to repeat himself (again).
Self obliged: “I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.”
Keating erupted, accusing Self of being “out of order” and lacking “decency.” He insisted that the hearing halt until Self bent the knee to the Soviet-style compelled speech codes of the transgender politburo.
So Rep. Self did what any self-respecting American would do in a situation when hysterical divas are trying to disrupt your work: He slammed the gavel and adjourned the hearing.
What should have been a discussion on nuclear nonproliferation became a referendum on reality itself. And in that clash, Self stood tall — not as a bully but as a beacon of truth against the rising tide of tyrannical “transgender” insanity.
After the hearing, Rep. Self posted a simple defense on X: “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”
We need to be honest about who Rep. McBride is. “Sarah” McBride is actually Timothy McBride. Born male, raised male, biologically male, McBride has spent years now demanding the world play along with his fantasy of being a woman.
Elected in November 2024 as the first openly “transgender” member of Congress, he’s wasted no time stirring controversy. He’s fought for access to women’s bathrooms in the Capitol, a move that saw House Republicans swiftly enact a ban. McBride decried it as discrimination, but it’s simply common sense — grown men don’t belong in the ladies’ room.
Now, barely four months into his term, he’s turning committee hearings into gender theater.
Fundamentally, this dustup isn’t about etiquette — it’s about the core lie of transgenderism: the insistence that everyone else affirm a perverted fiction. Self didn’t “misgender” McBride; he spoke the plain truth. McBride, born with XY chromosomes, is a man. No amount of surgery, hormones, makeup, high heels, pink power suits, or congressional titles changes that.
Yet in a twist of hypocritical irony, McBride is the one who actually misgendered Self, flipping “Mr.” to “Madam” as a snide jab.
So who’s really the intolerant one here?
This is the classic paradox of progressive tolerance: It demands conformity under the guise of freedom. Disagree, and you’re not just wrong — you’re indecent, out of order, and a bigot unworthy of debate.
The transgender movement thrives on this coercion. It’s not enough for McBride to live as he pleases; he requires our participation in the charade. To call him “Ms.” isn’t courtesy, it’s capitulation to a delusion that defies God’s created order. Self’s refusal to play along wasn’t cruelty — it was an important moment of clarity that millions of Americans got to witness.
And in that clarity lies a lesson for Christians: We must not — in the words of Soviet dissident and fellow Christian Alexandr Solzhenitsyn — live by lies.
Scripture is unambiguous on this issue. Genesis 1:27 declares, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Not male, female, and a spectrum of fancies. There are only two sexes, divinely ordained, and so deeply rooted in our biology that no scalpel can ever change it. Chromosomes don’t bend to feelings; DNA doesn’t bow to identity. Science, for all its secular swagger, affirms this: Sex is immutable and binary.
McBride can don dresses and adopt pronouns, but he remains Timothy — a man fearfully and wonderfully made, yet rejecting that gift.
Rep. Self’s handling of these hysterics is a model for Christians in this cultural moment. He didn’t sneer or scorn; he simply spoke the truth, which is the most loving act possible. Ephesians 4:15 urges us to speak “the truth in love,” not to coddle sin with silence.
To affirm McBride’s delusion isn’t kindness — it’s complicity in his self-destruction.
Love doesn’t lie; it liberates. Rep. Self modeled how to engage a delusion: with conviction, not cowardice, honoring God’s design over man’s demands.
Contrast this with the Left’s sanctimonious outrage. Keating’s tantrum wasn’t about decorum. It was about power. The progressive playbook is clear: Shame dissenters into submission. But Self didn’t flinch. He adjourned rather than grovel, proving that truth needn’t apologize.
Christians should take note. We’re called to be salt and light, not pushovers and peddlers of lies.
Here’s my own plea to Mr. McBride: Repent. Turn from this sinful rebellion against your Creator. The Gospel of Jesus Christ offers forgiveness of sins and hope of a new life in Christ.
Yes, Mr. McBride, you do need a new identity — but not one as a man cosplaying as a woman, but as a sinner born again by grace through faith.
Embrace the man God made you to be. The world may cheer your masquerade, but eternity won’t. John 8:32 promises, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
That freedom isn’t found in fake pronouns or coerced speech from others but in surrender to the One who knit you together.
Rep. Self’s courage reminds us that telling the truth isn’t hateful, indecent, or intolerant. It’s the bedrock of love.
Christians, take heart and take a stand. And live not by lies, even in Congress.
PHOTO: Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) walks across the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on November 15, 2024. CREDIT: Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO via AP Images
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