It’s necessary to teach children and youth how to steward the unique strengths God gave us when he made us male and female.
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Near the end of C. S. Lewis’s science-fiction novel Perelandra, his protagonist, Dr. Elwin Ransom, saw two idyllic forms—the celestial guardians of Mars and Venus:
Malacandra [Mars] was like a rhythm and Perelandra [Venus] was like a melody. . . . The first held in his hand something like a spear but the hands of the other were open. . . . What Ransom saw in that moment was the real meaning of gender.
