Mark Steyn warns ‘demonic’ trans ideology seeks to replace God

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Monday, September 22, 2025Conservative political commentator Mark Steyn, pictured above during a Hillsdale College CCA seminar on March 6, 2024. | Screengrab/YouTube/Hillsdale CollegeConservative political commentator Mark Steyn recently claimed the murder of Charlie Kirk is an example of a gathering spiritual war manifesting as Christianity weakens as a dominant cultural force.”It’s good versus evil that’s going on here,” Steyn said during his “Clubland Q&A” podcast last week, responding to a listener’s question asking whether Kirk’s murder was “demonic.” Kirk was shot dead on Sept. 10 in Utah by a 22-year-old alleged assassin who reportedly harbored leftist political views and lived with a trans-identifying partner. Steyn suggested that transgender ideology and other left-wing ideologies are filling a post-Christian vacuum in the West, and that transgenderism especially allows adherents to replace traditional Christian faith by becoming their own gods.”When you live in a society where faith is weak, as the entire Western world is, and a society where the Mainline churches are almost all post-Christian to one degree or another, the need for a transcendental meaning to life will become overwhelming for most people, so they look elsewhere,” he said.”[Transgenderism] presupposes that you are God,” he later continued. “That if you can wake up one morning like [former assistant secretary for health] Rachel Levine, and you’re a 63-year-old, lumpy, unprepossessing bloke, and decide you’d like to be a 63-year-old, unprepossessing, lumpy woman, you can do that.”Steyn observed how rapidly transgenderism has proliferated from a “niche” fetish to something afflicting many schoolchildren throughout the U.S., a trend he characterized as evil.”The core value, as we’re seeing, of this mass transgenderization is evil — inflicting permanent damage on school children for a phase they may be going through,” he said.Steyn noted that despite their inherent contradictions, both Islam and transgender ideology presently share the common goal of replacing Christianity. He dismissed those who would focus on the “cognitive dissonance” of those on the Left who support both Islam and transgenderism.”It’s not about that. It’s a bloody war, right? We’re not at some think-tank having a panel discussion. It’s war.”In a Monday column about Kirk’s memorial service, which was attended by tens of thousands and focused heavily on the Gospel, Steyn noted that Islam and transgender ideology also share a tactic of silencing those who disagree. He predicted both are headed toward increasing clashes with Christianity in the coming years.”But, absent the ‘revival’ that was the theme of the Kirk memorial, it is not hard to predict what will happen: The false religions, whether Islam or mass trannification, will increase their tribe — although it is not hard to see which one would win a head-to-head showdown,” he wrote.Noting the example of Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde, who he called “a tool of Satan” earlier this year for pushing the idea of “transgender children” from the pulpit, Steyn said many churches that have abandoned the faith are aligning with Christianity’s opponents.”In the meantime, both will co-opt the ‘mainstream’ churches — as we heard from that tranny fetishist in the forty-seventh president’s inaugural service at the National Cathedral and more recently in the reaction to the Tommy Robinson rally from the woeful bishops’ bench in the House of Lords: the road to hell is greased by the post-Christian churches.”Steyn, who was baptized Roman Catholic before becoming Anglican and ultimately a Baptist, first rose to prominence for his 2006 book, America Alone, about Europe’s demographic death spiral. He often served as a regular guest host for the late Rush Limbaugh and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com