Ah okay, I am new to this forum. So thank you for the heads-up! Perhaps it could be added to the guidelines?
I totally understand that. I will only answer the direct question of @SkovandOfMitaze and @jammycakes (just so polite). But I won’t reply to the other comments regarding sexuality then.
I think the teleological definition I gave earlier includes everyone. But let’s rephrase it:
A male is someone who is able to become a father. Including everyone who is able to become a father after their issues (e.g. infertility or DSD) would have been healed if Jesus would still be walking around.
A female is someone who is able to become a mother. (Idem.)
I suppose this is compatible with your definition.
Yes! Although it is possible of course for an intersex person to experience transgender feelings. Just as an intersex person can experience anorexia. So they are separate issues, but not mutually exclusive.
Yes! That’s why humans are created last. If I remember correctly, the image of the god or goddess was always the last thing to be placed inside the temple after its construction.
And it shows that both men and women constitute the priesthood. I wonder though why Israelite priests were only male. You could argue that God accommodated worship to their culture. But there were female priests in Egypt.
Perhaps women’s monthly impurity made it impossible to serve at the altar. Which would not necessarily be sexist. Certain men were also exempt from service (Leviticus 21:18-20).
Or it has something to do with preventing people to think that Yahweh had a consort. Just like why there was no Israelite queen, as I mentioned in my comment here:
What can be said about these supposedly ancient Israelite drawings of YHWH and His “wife”
I looked it up, interessesting! I will probably buy her commentary on Daniel someday. But if I may ask, how do you relate this to this thread?