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=== Religion ===

Major religions often teach a gender binary and act as authorities for gender roles.{{Citation needed |date=March 2024}} Many Christians teach that the gender binary is both good and normal, pointing to the gender binary evident in the creation story of the [[Book of Genesis]] in the [[Bible]], where it is declared that, "God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwarzwalder |first1=Rob |date=May 31, 2016 | title=Sexual Madness and the Image of God |url=https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/sexual-madness-and-the-image-of-god |access-date=17 December 2019 |publisher=[[Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Yuan | first=Christopher | date=14 December 2019 | title=He Made Them Male and Female: Sex, Gender, and the Image of God | website=Desiring God | url=https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/he-made-them-male-and-female | access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=What does the Bible mean by "male and female He created them" (Genesis 1:27)? | website=GotQuestions.org | date=16 February 2021 | url=https://www.gotquestions.org/male-and-female-He-created-them.html | access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref> [[Carol S. Wimmer]] suggests that the Genesis creation narrative implies a linguistic gender binary of "form, essence, or purpose of role" but not of "sexuality, sexual function, or sexual activity".<ref>{{cite web | last=Wimmer | first=Carol S. | date=10 June 2021 | title=Male and Female in Genesis 1 | website=Carol S. Wimmer | url=https://carolwimmer.com/male-and-female-in-genesis-1/ | access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>

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