C.S. Lewis Said Gender Is More Real Than Sex

And he did not mean what the pronoun people mean.

Lewis’s Perelandra is a profound work that speaks deeply to our modern ills. In it, Lewis posits something that at first glance sounds like it was lifted from a gender studies course: gender is more real than sex.

But Lewis meant the exact opposite of what the modern ear hears. He was not saying your body is an accident and your inner sense of self is th…