As a therapist, we know how easy (and subtle) it is for an adult to manipulate a child so they’ll be more accepting, compliant, and feel complicit in being abused. Yet, for some reason, we are completely ignoring how these same factors are influencing kids when it comes to “identity” labels. By trying to force acceptance and open-mindedness we are actually manipulating kids in ways that can confuse them about their own identity and boundaries. The enforcement of “affirming” care by insurance companies, licensing boards, professional ethical standards/organizations, etc, has tied therapists’ hands. We are not allowed to explore how and why this client is facing this struggle. We are only allowed to tell them that they are absolutely correct in identifying the source of the problem as being gender discrepancy and that their only path forward is to transition or else they’ll self delete. There is no other client type on earth that I’m not allowed to explore with, or offer therapy to, or discuss treatment options (including not getting treatment at all), except this client. That’s not fair to the people struggling with these issues. They get to worst mental health treatment… affirmation and abandonment. So how we’re expecting there to be good research about a highly psychological issue when we’ve locked the therapists out of the building is beyond me. Until this environment is changed we will continue to get mostly activist driven research that ignores detransitioners as much as possible, or worse… research by big pharma and surgeons who have significant conflicts of interest. Most of these kids have untreated (and possibly dissociated/repressed) trauma in their lives that have caused the divorce between their sense of self and their sense of belonging in their body/appearance/apparent gender. Their suffering and confusion and gender dysphoria is real… but unless we treat the trauma and heal the psychological damage no amount of surgery or meds or social acceptance will ever make them truly content and happy in their own body long term. That’s why it’s also extremely common for them to have multiple psychiatric diagnoses before, during, and after medical transitioning. (But because of forced affirming care guidelines therapists can’t say those need to be addressed first or we can be accused of trying to do conversion therapy which is illegal and unethical in most states and will cost us our careers). It’s a severe mess and most of the public doesn’t realize how messed up the whole landscape is. Detransitioners are the canaries in the coal mines and we need to listen to them, or else medical transitioning is going to go down in history the same way lobotomies and forced sterilization on psychiatric patients did… as our failure.
"Most of these kids have untreated (and possibly dissociated/repressed) trauma in their lives that have caused the divorce between their sense of self and their sense of belonging in their body/appearance/apparent gender. Their suffering and confusion and gender dysphoria is real… but unless we treat the trauma and heal the psychological damage no amount of surgery or meds or social acceptance will ever make them truly content and happy in their own body long term." As a therapist, I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. I personally have never met a trans person who was not sexually abused as a child. That's not to say there aren't any trans people without that history, but I've never met one. Trauma is the root cause of many societal ills.
That was amazingly well written and informative. 👏👏👏 I hope you are a leader in the professional counseling industry and will be able to work for change in this horrific tide malpractice that is leafing to further abuse of these children. It is absolutely criminal that therapists hands are tied this way! I hate, loathe and despise the big Phama/ medical complex.
Regarding studies, I have heard multiple detransitioners say that the studies on regret often end 3-6 months after the surgery, while regret usually starts emerging a year or so later. Also, people who express regret are often dropped from the data pool. When studies are performed by people invested in trans ideology, either emotionally or financially, you're not going to get truth from them.
@@queenofprops All who "read" the bible, yet not getting a picture that we deserve fire again, as we have become SODOM AND GOMORRAH worldwide and we live under masonic rulership, , has forgotten the needed part, BIBLE is to study also. Without studying no knowledge. Without the hunger for truth, no understanding. I remind again, KJV version seem to be perfectly harsh one, as bible should be. Like Christ is not found among the dead, so is Christianity not found among religions. Religions are false ways to heaven, created my masons. Mix not lies with truth ( religions with reality) and risk to lose souls. We suppose to win them over to GOD not lose them into devils hand. Just to let you know, the real masons are the fallens offspring, they are not human, but all kinds of hybrid creatures, in high places /in this worlds governments. These "politics" we see and hear, and many in every 4 years go and "vote" for are only puppets - dolls, whom the fallens play with and deceive the human population. Sad that to this day, you know not so . The offspring of the fallens = the ancient hybrids and red head giants have now returned with a deadly virus. i have 7 useful playlists, please souls, watch these. Keep being bold, soul, keep sharing knowledge, but most importantly, come you too, to the knowledge of the whole truth.
What a great conversation. I transitioned SOCIALLY on my own freewill and with my mother’s approval in the early 70s. Then a few years later I was forced by my mum to detransition. I would probably have a different story if I had continued the transsexual lifestyle. Today I am a 52 years old ex-transwoman from Malaysia who is living my true life. My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has healed and delivered me for His glory. Only God can do this for anyone who chooses to believe that He is able. Alleluia!
Thank you both for this thoughtful and well-informed conversation about gender transition and detransition. One point I would like to make to Dr. Paul Rhodes Eddy, regarding his use of the terms, "assigned male at birth" (AMAB), and "assigned female at birth" (AFAB). Those terms are inventions of gender ideology. The vast majority of infants are not assigned male or female at birth. Their sex is observed. Only a very small percentage of intersex infants might puzzle adults attending a birth, as to what sex they are. Ask any 6-year-old child what sex a newborn baby is, and they can tell you by simple observation. The voices of the detransitioners are extremely important. Currently, they are the tip of the iceberg, telling the truth about the limits of transition and the horrors of the surgeries. Regret after extensive genital surgery is far greater than any study reveals.
@@ritapacheco8084 Weird question but, almost every baby born is rather obviously male, or female. Children can easily tell. Adults steeped in gender ideology and queer theory seem to have difficulty understanding basic biology.
@@ritapacheco8084 The babies who are not born "intersex" are about 99.9% of all babies. So less than 1% of babies are "assigned" a gender by loose interpretation of the data. However, the truth is no babies are actually assigned a gender because all gender is observed not assigned. Interesexed as in hermaphrodite babies are always either male or female at the chromosome level but are born with a birth defect in which they have dysfunctional sexual organs of the opposite gender in addition to the reproductive organs of their actual biological gender.
Also the second error and parroting of the gender ideology is "sex is on a spectrum". It isn't. Within each sex there is for sure a spectrum/variation of phenotypes, fertility, ... but the sexes are distinct. There is no "in between" or an intersection between the sexes. There are no speggs or erms. It is around the 10th minute. After that I couldn't watch anylonger. We reproduce sexually. Which means two types of gametes. And therefore two types of sexes whose organisms are organized and developed around producing those gametes and fullfilling the distinct biological function: fertilizing or pregnancy/childbearing. Sexual procreation instead of just dividing and multiplying cells is the main driver in evolution. The other one is mutation.
Still the fact remains: Gender/sex is a biological fact. A person's DNA is conclusive. What they call the "spectrum" is really nothing more the sexual preference.
Really? Thing is someone’s dna isn’t conclusive. Take some intersex conditions, specifically AIS (androgen insensitivity disorder). People with AIS all have female genitals, but no uterus and have male DNA (XY). Yet in studies they 100% ID as female. Ben Shapiro disqualifies intersex as a freak condition, but intersex conditions are a spectrum. So there is something called PAIS, which is partial androgen insensitivity disorder. This is similar but sufferers typically have a variety of symptoms but pop out of the womb and are either assigned male or female depending on what their anatomy is…. And you guessed it they all have x,y chromosomes, some Id men and women along the same lines as AIS. PAIS is typically considered an intersex disorder. Lastly there is MAIS which is mild androgen insensitivity disorder. Thing is with MAIS most people never know they have it and while it’s caused by similar inherited gene mutations as AIS, the physical impacts are generally mild and are normally picked up when they can’t have kids and the doctor knows to do the right tests. So we have no idea how many men have MAIS and MAIS is technically an intersex condition. There is very little science to tell if there is a link between intersex and trans, the studies just haven’t been large enough, though there are a couple of studies that point towards men with Klinefelter’s Syndrome as having a high % of transwomen amongst a study. So does DNA define whether you’re a man or a woman, normally yes but there are exceptions so the answer is a definitive NO.
Not quite; sexual preference is orientation ie egst you are attracted to. Gender is referring to what sex you think you are. Today apparently anyway. It used to mean what sex you actually are.
@@strykerpass600real intersex disorders are vanishingly rare, and have nothing to do with transgenderism in reality. It is used to back up the nonsense by activists though and people who desperately are looking for validation.
@@ApacheMagic ironically there is more evidence that points to transgenderism being caused by biology factors (specifically exposure to prenatal sex hormones and brain structure differences) than homosexuality.
I just watched Chloe Cole interview with Layla Jane....same butcher's, both suing said butcher's. These young women are ACTUALLY STUNNING AND BRAVE. BOTH DE-TRANSITIONERS.
While discussing how far back gender transitioning goes, it made me think about a Bible verse that’s been on my mind a lot from Ecclesiastes that talks about how there’s nothing new under the sun. The part about Darwinism reallllly got me. I’m so glad Dr. Rhodes decided to study this so thoroughly
1st - no one can or ever has actually become another gender . No amount of delusion , wishful thinking or superficial alterations can accomplish that . 2nd - wishing for more data on such practices is endorsing that it continues at the horrific cost to children and others. For example - Do we need to chop off healthy limbs to " get more data " on how it affects children ? No. No we don't.
When I was in school, the social pressure was to be thin. I was a size 6, and as the "freshman 15" was becoming a struggle, I became bulimic trying to become a size 4. And I was nearly 5'8"... I recall throwing my guts up until I couldn't stop the nose bleeds or hold my food down.. And not ONE counselor confirmed my flawed self-perception, thank God... This all has become political... and I fear, darkly... spiritual... Thank God... one night, alone in my dorm, bent over a basement bathroom toilet, I was reaching for the toiletpaper to wipe the tears, blood, and vomit off my face and realized the toiletpaper ring was empty... But as I looked closer, I saw faintly written on the brown empty ring were the words "Jesus understands" Oh.. God met me at that dark time in my life... I pray NOW He sends His loving Spirit and His angels on a beautiful rescue mission --Worldwide.. "He is near to the broken hearted and He saves those who are crushed in spirit" Psalm 34:18 "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.." James 4:8 "Come to me all who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you shall find rest for your soul." -Jesus Matthew 11:28-29 God is not the author of confusion. Satan is the Father of Lies... John 8:44 and 1 Corinthians 14:33
I've heard it said by persons with regret that their physicians that performed their surgeries declined further services at this point. Then they must search for someone to "fix" them. They've found that not many surgeons want to jump in at this point.
@@McSherryStudioArtat the same time there is a possible abandonment of care issue there also. Doctors never want to hear those words. And a patient in that position has to feel pretty desperate and confused.
Having a relationship w Jesus is not necessarily adopting a religion. I think that's what she meant...being a true Christian & being involved in a "religion" are very different
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree let’s finish your phrase, because if you know He died 2000 yrs ago then you also know that He was resurrected, and then ascended into Heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
They are now just constructing vag**as from the transitioning guy’s p**is turned inside out. If a boy transitioning to girl took puberty blockers his p is not large enough and they have to use part of his intestines to construct a v. Very dangerous and sad. We are sterilizing a generation of children who are trusting adults are taking care of them by transitioning them.
If uterine transplants were to become possible, they ought to be offered to women who, out of medical necessity, have had a hysterectomy (e.g. in my own case, I had uncontrollable life-threatening bleeding).
As a woman who is detransitioning after being on testosterone and having my breasts removed; I feel a sense of justice and relief when I see videos like these, exposing this movement for what it really is. People like myself have often been brainwashed by our "friends" on the internet, they claim they are looking out for you while feeding you dangerous self-centered ideas about who you are and urging you to reject and despise anyone who is against you. They will make you think your parents are abusive and evil for not agreeing with your new identity and often encourage you to leave and cut them out of your life. I was 12-13 when this process began for me, and my delusion was finally cemented when I went through a harrowing sexual assault at age 14, I decided that this new identity would be my chance to escape the pain and start over. Its been 10 years and i still remember thinking to myself "if I wasnt already trans before, I sure am now. I'm defiled and broken now, I can never be a woman". This new identity became a safety blanket, a pacifier, a way out of a world of guilt and shame. I didnt tell a soul about this experience, and continued to talk to my online friends and trans support groups, who offered unconditional encouragement still. They affirm every belief you have that aligns with theirs, but if you question anything or disagree with them, then they ban you from every group and forum and flame you for everyone to see. They'll expose you with pictures from your profile, your name, your posts and anything they can find on your profile, and people join in and talk about what transphobic scum you are. Its merciless and brutal, and eventually you start to think like them because you want to be on the "right side of history". If you think this sounds like a cult, thats because it is. If you eventually decide to detransition like I did, they will be the first to call you a traitor, a fake, and a threat to their cause. Every single voice that speaks up for detransitioners, for our children and for women, brings our society one step closer to sanity.
Thank you for sharing your story. Unfortunately, every single LGBTQ person I personally know have had some similar experiences as you, and tried to escape their trauma by clinging onto their gender or sexual identity. I'm sorry that all this happened to you, esp the sexual assault. I hope you've worked through your feelings of feeling defiled or broken, that you have a better relationship with your parents, and that you have found another support group that loves you unconditionally.
Me too! I can’t get elective plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes which is also part of self-image etc. I have to pay through the teeth. Wtf is the difference? A current liberal trend or cause???
Freud popularized the notion that our sexuality is the most central aspect of being human. If this is so, gender affirming surgery isn't cosmetic; it's as important as heart bypass surgery.
Well done conversation. Dr. Eddy has done an extensive and accurate job of reviewing the available data, and I fully concur that there is no reliable data for exactly the reasons he named--short follow up, large percentage of patients lost to follow up, etc. My thought...no girl likes puberty. Periods are disgusting, breasts develop too early or too late, are too big or too small. What she needs is an understanding mother who is going to deal with her outbursts, teach her to deal with peer pressure, and help her thru this trying time. But many in our society have decided that it is better for mom to be out working, then coming home to housework and generally being exhausted. This results in the young girl spending more time on line and looking for support from her peer group, teachers, and groomers that she meets on line. There is evidence that if you do nothing with girls in their early teens, 90% or more will "decide" that they are heterosexual females by age 18, most of the rest will decide that they are homosexual. The problem is that they are being told by teachers and others that they must be "in the wrong body," at which point they get sucked into the whole "affirming" counseling, etc. Counseling is NOT supposed to be "affirming," it should be a time for challenging the client's beliefs, looking for potential diagnoses, and supporting during the process. It does not mean accepting everything that comes out of a client's mouth. Bottom line, start with a strong mother/daughter relationship years before the teen/pre-teen time. Then throw in a strong faith based peer group (yes, there are brats in church youth groups, choirs, etc., but at least there are hopefully some caring, supportive adults and some decent kids. This provide support for all the outside stuff that is thrown at her! It is also worth noting that the number of uterine transplants to date has been very small, and to date I cannot find any documentation of a live, term birth following a transplant. There have been premature deliveries in which the infant ultimately survived. It is difficult to call a procedure that results in an infant requiring aggressive care at birth a success, even though with our current state of neonatal care, some of these children have been discharged healthy. The question becomes, just because we CAN do it, should we?
You seem to have summed things up in this comment. One thing I would question, though. Why would any girl or woman see anything about their female physiology as disgusting? Shouldn't periods be seen as a God-given sign of being a fertile young woman who might become a mother? Something to celebrate? It seems to me, that this negative approach to our own biology is part of the problem. I am an old woman, by the way.
@@skathwoelya2935 I agree. On the other hand, periods are messy, inconvenient, range from uncomfortable to painful. It is hard to celebrate something that makes you feel "icky." Part of being a mother is helping a young girl to deal with periods and everything they mean as well as the discomfort,
I'm rather disappointed with what I heard on this episode. People, especially children, have been completely dehumanized, reduced to quantifiable statistics. 😢 When I finished my statistics classes my teacher, who had worked more than 10 years on the shuttle program, asked my opinion about statistics. I said it's a bunch of baloney; the statistical "studies" can be made to reflect whatever is desired by the parameters, sample sizes, questions, ... Completely biased instead of the advertised objectivity. And the use of the term "assigned at birth" really concerns me: Instead of the church influencing society it appears evident here how society has influenced the church. I wonder what Jesus thinks of this weakness of His body, His loveless body. Love isn't saying, "Sure, honey, I understand. And I'll support you whatever you decide." It's, "NO, these are lies you're being fed. So you're a tomboy; be a mechanic, get dirty. But then be knock-dead gorgeous. Be as God made you, and God doesn't make mistakes." Love is being strong enough to point out errancy.
This comment caught my eye: My car mechanic is actually a drop-dead gorgeous woman! Totally grunged during the day, totally beautiful after the working day is over. Although, I have to say, even in her overalls and covered in grease she's gorgeous. And a great mechanic, to boot!
100% spot on. Children are being manipulated and shamed in order to accept all sorts of debauchery now and the emotional and physical turmoil of having to deal with deformed bodies will be life long. God help them.
A professor from Carnagie once told me, "All statistics are cooked. How they're cooked depends entirely on what the presenter intends to serve." I've never forgotten that.
I'm atheist. I don't subscribe to a large amount of the faith-based beliefs of these two men, but I appreciate the approach to the data and the conversation by these two men. Well done, gents.
I have come to appreciate the athiest's hard data approach to this subject. We can talk about a metaphysical faith in god approach that is beneficial, but only to a certain extent. You athiests bring in the cold hard facts.
Yeah, I'm atheist, and I appreciate McDowell's position here. Not sure about the doctor tho- He talks about people being "ASSIGNED female/male", and talks about """women""" who are biologically male... If he's not ENTIRELY captured already, he will be soon... NEVER adopt that dishonest language. ALWAYS speak in plain, simple, evidence-based English. They aren't. """trans-women""'; they are MEN, who self-ID as trans. And ALWAYS use sex-correct pronouns, or else YOU are one of the biology-denyers...
This was very informative. I hope you do a follow up. It seems impossible to me that you can 100% support your trans child without compromising the truth. I think you can 100% love them however.
I wish people would stop saying 'trans child' in these discussions. There is no such thing as a 'trans child,' a 'trans woman' or a trans anything else. What they call a 'trans child' is just an ordinary child who is struggling with mental and emotional issues. So that's how you support them. As a child that is struggling with something.
If you’re going through this or if anyone reading this is, I am very sorry. God desires for us to worship Him in spirit and truth. God’s truth can be distracted from but never changed. Hold firm to the truth in love, selflessly as the Lord enables and the Lord will exalt you in due time.
I will put out some dots and connect them how you will. In 1980, the United States FDA adopted new dietary guidelines that emphasized breads and grains over animal proteins (food pyramid) . From 1980 to today obesity and diabetes have increased to epidemic proportions; over 40% of Americans have type 2 or prediabetes (call this a marker for metabolic disease). About 30 years ago, 1 in 10,000 children were diagnosed with autism. Today about 1 in 36 children are considered autistic. Autism rate increasing trends in the same direction as the increase growth in metabolic diseases. Fifty years ago, school lunches contained whole milk, vegetables, and good amount of protein. School lunches following today’s FDA guidelines serve skim milk, less than 4 ounces of lean protein and offered with commercial processed foods containing large amount of sugar on seed oils. Gen Z, born 1997 to 2012, is the first generation in which both parents and children were raised on the current food pyramid. Twenty percent of Gen Z is in the LGBTQ community. Autistic children are the largest adolescents group seeking transition.
I am so sorry you have gone through this. I wish people would just tell their children how beautiful and wo derful they are and just the way they are. I always told my daughter how beautiful she was. She played with boys and was a tomboy. But she never questioned that she was a girl. She shaved her head once, but she never felt that she was anything less than a girl.
Why can't I just say that I PREFER you don't ask me to lie? What is wrong with that? I want to be 18 years old and no matter how hard I try, no one will agree with me. So tell me why preferred pronouns is any different? What it really is, is one person trying to force their will on another.
This was very well discussed and I appreciate understanding everything a lot more! Our state (WA) just passed a law allowing children to make their own choices about physical gender surgeries. It is heartbreaking.
What is even MORE heartbreaking is right wing propagandists who DENY the truth of homosexuals and transgendered youth. What is crazy to me, is that YOU think you are are on the right side of history because of the Bible. Those same people in the past have believed Blacks are less human than whites (uh..these were CHRISTIANS people!) , those same Christians believed that slavery is okay, that women could not EVER be in leadership, that drums in church is evil, that blacks should always be segregated, that blacks and whites should not marry, that left handed people are “wrong” because righteousness in God is “right handed”, that those afflicted with epilepsy were “demon possessed” , that the indigenous people (heathen) should be SLAUGHTERED according to God, that men should NEVER have long hair, women should NEVER wear pants (they are cursed for behaving like men), that the Crusades were righteous, that witch hunts were righteous..the earth is flat, right wing conservatives FOLLOWED HITLER because they believed their understanding of the Bible was right, and “Christians” believed the earth is the CENTER of the Universe despite ALL SCIENTIFIC PROOF……. and HERE WE ARE AGAIN…..SERIOUSLY? OMF….SERIOUSLY and you think you have the authority to speak on these things? How MANY TIMES has the church SELF-RIGHTEOUSLY gotten things wrong….and here you go again. 100 years from now, with science and discovery, the church will look like it’s FOOLISH SELF to the world because……IT NEVER EVER LEARNS! All I can say, in the name of sweet Jesus, is RUN FROM THESE PHARISEES AND RELIGIOUS LIARS. RUN RUN RUN! ♥️ and may you know His sweet Love over you, His acceptance, His goodness, that washes away the LIES of the religious and self-righteous.
..and hide the child from the parents if there is a "compelling reason" - defined roughly as the child asked for "protected health care", ie abortions or gender transition. It's a commissar groomer dream!
@@SeanMcDowell That is really sad. No matter what your opinion on transgender people is, children are not fully formed. Altering their bodies when their bodies aren't even complete is a terrible idea and extremely irresponsible.
@@SeanMcDowell @Bryan Syme Bryan makes a VERY good point: "children are not fully formed." They delay surgery when an injury happens because the growth plate isn't yet fully formed. Again "precedence" recognizes the incomplete physical structure of children, but gender alteration is fine?! The "medical" community started pumping children full of puberty blockers years ago because of early onset puberty (supposedly) should never have been allowed! That was more manipulative therapy to test the waters for more severe alterations. This is plain evil, perverting God's creation and His word.
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@@angelagladstone8863 no sorry it is the same thing. You could also say sex roles if you wanted to say it that way and it would mean the same thing. The reason people usually say gender roles is because there is a another meaning for sex which a person would not mean in that context. You people want to make everything a social construct that you can bend to fit your will. Language overall is a social construct you can't just go around and changing language to fit your narrative.
@@angelagladstone8863 Sorry, the modern day gender ideology is not based on actual science and human biology. Everybody knows this. The literature is quite clear on the matter as it always has been. It wasn’t until fairly recently that ideologues within liberal academia began to push a false narrative. Do you own homework and you’ll quickly reject the pseudo-science fantasy for yourself.
In Johnathan Cahn's book: Return Of The Gods . He points to spiritual root of this phenomena going to the ancient world. His book explains the mysteries behind transgenderism and cancel culture among other things. It's a must!
I hope that the detrans studies separate the different roads people travel from to get to transitioning in the first place. These include: Parent initiated, the rapid onset for peer attention, serious trauma and/or mental health conditions, an attempt at escaping homosexuality, and the sexual fetish driven autogynephilic. I feel that each group will have vastly different results regarding detransition.
I’m putting it out there, as a transgender woman atheist, I was expecting some Transgender hate when I clicked. But this was an appropriate, intelligent conversation backed by research. As a transgender woman I agree with everything the Dr says. I don’t think Transgender women are pushing transition of minors, as a group.
I feel like a purple hydrangea bush! Seriously…identity is NOT a feeling, it’s a state of being. If we say we not only have free speech, but a right to individuality & a right change our minds?… It’s suspicious to me that there’s A SEVERE LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY & SUPPORT if there’s any regret @ all & even a waiver to protect the ‘so called medical professionals from malpractice or mutilation of children & young people. LORD have mercy!!!
As Christians I think we should be very careful about falling into the language trap of using "assigned" for biological sex. I had a very hard time believing Dr. Eddy after he used that term early in the interview.
I am the same, but altho I disagree with that label, the dialogue also made it “safe” for people who are not sure about this subject to watch the whole thing without fire and brimstone. They are clearly concerned for children and adults who transition or even question their acceptance of their body. Much better than dehumanizing them with a label of evil.
Sean asked very good questions. Dr. Rhodes did not give very good answers. Studies from the 1950's 1960's, mean NOTHING to what is happening today. He keeps talking about regret over the decades, but that's mostly men to women, and now we are overwhelmed with girls to boys transitioning. Almost NO studies on that, because it was so rare.
(Courtesy of Stephanie Winn) Proponents of gender-transitioning youth insist the benefits of the practice are self-evident even if systematic reviews of evidence cannot detect them. To support their view, they quote exceedingly low regret rates of less than 1-2%. This implies that 98-99% of transitioned individuals are happily situated throughout their lives. This conclusion is inaccurate, for three reasons. 1) Follow-up studies exploring regret and quality of life suffer from very high rates of loss (20-60%) to follow-up, which means the most adversely affected (including dissatisfied, sick, or deceased) patients may be lost to follow-up at a disproportionately high rate. 2) These rates were obtained from individuals transitioning under much different circumstances than the ones found today. They were mature adults who passed rigorous psychological screenings, which today are viewed as “discriminatory gatekeeping.” 3) Each study’s methodology of how they defined "regret" differed, but generally speaking, "regret" has been traditionally defined very narrowly as a request for legal document change or a return to the same clinic that facilitated the original transition to start medical detransition. Even when these criteria were met, not every study would consider someone who wanted to reverse their transition as a "regretter". For example, Keira Bell, arguably the most famous young adult regretter, whose case led the UK to reevaluate their approach to gender dysphoric youth, would not have been counted as a regretter in frequently-cited “low regret” studies. This is because the studies required regretters to have had their gonads removed, while the only surgery Keira received was a double mastectomy.
The Doctor is weak, promoting biology-denying garbage like "Assigned male/female at birth". Nobody is "ASSIGNED" their sex; You just ARE your sex. The doctor used a bunch of lefty language like that
Thank you Dr. Sean for having this guest speak. Very informative. Would you and Dr. Scott Rae consider doing a 2 year retrospective on your April 2021 COVID 19 program? I think interesting ethical and scientific things have emerged regarding medical therapies at that time that would be good to address from a biblical basis now. Sort of like when Joshua and old testament spies were deceived by local tribe leaders to make peace even though they lived around the corner. Thanks for considering!
Let children be children….they can make life altering decisions when they are old enough like 18 or 21 (not that I agree with mutilating body parts at any age)
When I was a young person, women were allowed to be tom boys. It wasn't looked down on at all or seen as trans. Now, only the very strict stereotypes of what a woman can be are considered women so a whole lot of "tomboys" like I was now think, "Maybe I am a boy." Versus I am a girl who likes to do the same things my brothers get to do.
I too was a tomboy up until age 13 I recall. I was allowed to be a tomboy, short hair and athletic being primarily interested in my horse, but I also had Barbie dolls and played with them for hours and hours. Bless my parents for allowing my to wear these different identities without labeling and judging. All humans have this ability, it is called imagination and is NOT a mental illness!
@@michaelfrazier9003 It wasn't treated as an identity when I was young. It was "legal" for girls to be "tomboys" and they didn't need to change their identity to enjoy cars or fishing or woodworking or a pilot or race car driver. Anything at all without needing to do any mental gymnastics at all.
Got to wonder about the people who would ruin lives through meds and surgery and social pressure, and especially the ruin the lives of our children and young adults.
Not quite sure why this subject is so difficult? Scripture is abundantly clear on these matters. ANYTHING outside of a man and a woman within the confines of marriage is out of bounds and clearly defined as a sin. Sadly, many within the "church" make this to difficult, when actually it isn't at all, put aside all the PsychoBabble and simply preach what God's Word actually says. Certainly we should preach the truth in love, but preach the TRUTH!
@@geekygecko1849 yes that would be because it’s a man and woman, but I’d guess that you and I would disagree about who’s the man and who’s the woman in that relationship.
I have not watched this yet but can help but say im deeply curious and looks forward to viewing this content. ❤ Those who detransition need our love and support
When we realize that sex is genetic there is no assigning the sex, only recognizing the sex, that can be a problem only if the person has both sets of sex organ and or some other mess up.
Hey if you mention the early gender transitions that happened in Germany you should also mention how it ended because the Nazis burned the institute down. That's a pretty critical part of that story.
Fantastic show. This was really well presented. Thanks for your research Dr. Eddy. This really is a service to the church of Christ. Thanks Dr. Sean McDowell for having these excellent conversations. Really insightful.
NOT FANTASTIC! so sad, and so harmful. The CHURCH is always WRONG, always BEHIND, always HARMFUL. Just like the church believed it was “evil” to be “left-handed” (ohhh and they had SCRIPTURE to back them up) , and they MADE left handed kids write with their RIGHT HANDS….because they were SO IGNORANT….this is the same thing. Science has PROVED that sexuality IS NOT BINARY, just like light and darkness is NOT binary (there is dawn and dusk) people can be born intersex (both female and male) and women and men can be born with opposites chromosomes to how they present, I’m so angry that the church (as always) is propagating lies and is behind the times and behind science! SHAME!
Dr Eddy is ideologically captured; He talks about """women""", and then later mentions this """woman""" is biologcally male. He uses wrong-sex pronouns. He uses dishonest, left-wing terms like "ASSIGNED female/male at birth". Being compassionate is one thing; It's not hard to avoid using ANY pronouns, if you don't want to hurt someone's feelings by """mis-gendering""" them (ie CORRECTLY gendering them, for their objectively real, evidence-based sex)... ... But going right to the other side, when you're affirming WRONG-SEX pronouns, and promoting garbage like "assigned male/female at birth", is a whole OTHER thing.... As far as I'm concerned, using wrong-sex pronouns is deliberate LYING, and worse, a lie ACTIVELY PROMOTING the fiction that men can become women. And vice versa
There is some very interesting data in a group of 11 recent Dutch studies. Only 20% of kids in these studies persisted beyond age 18. A few were untraceable and in the rest, feelings of dysphoria desisted as they went through typical biological development. The interesting thing is that among the cohort that persisted, every one of them had been taking puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, etc. This seems to clearly make a case that these drugs are creating and perpetuating dysphoria in kids who would otherwise resolve during puberty.. We are creating dysphoria in kids who experience typical developmental angst and then that dysphoria is perpetuated by the continued use of pharmaceuticals. In order to claim resolution through transition, these chemicals that change brain and body chemistry must be continued throughout the lifespan. I suspect the majority would have desisted if they had not taken chemicals to change brain and body chemistry.
6:41 I think you're missing what happened to Magnus Hirschfeld and his institute in 1933. "In the afternoon, the SA came to the institute, carrying out a more systematic attack, removing all volumes from the library and storing them for a book-burning event which was to be held four days later. In the evening, the Berlin police arrived at the institution and announced that it was closed forever." the germans were not a fan I guess.
Being that many children with dysphoria have been traumatized in childhood, how are they supposed to feel loved? Their family of origin are hardly going to give them what they need, past a bandaid and a pat on the head. Is this why affirming them in their psychosis is being shoved down our throats?
In the 90's I pictured the 2020's would have a world free of cancer. Instead it's one big circus where science is close to allowing men to get pregnant. Idiocracy was truly a documentary.
Not sure why he (Christian?) said "assigned at birth"🤦🏻♀️...still less than 10 minutes in, maybe that'll be the furtherest he accepts the trans talking points.
As a biologist I must take issue with the idea that evolutionary biology in any way supports transgender ideology if understood correctly. However, it also doesn't support eugenics so maybe the false idealogical version you call Darwinism is a factor.
As an autistic woman I'm so sad to see so many autistic girls get sucked into this ideology because they don't present as a stereotypical female. Not only that, they don't get the help they need for their autism because it's somehow wrong to look into the reason behind their gender issues. Autistic females do present more like males because they are more logical and less social, often more interested in math and science. I grew up as a tomboy. I wore mostly boys clothes because they were more comfortable and one of my symptoms is sensory sensitivity. So I hated dresses and I couldn't stand long hair (the feeling of things touching my neck), so I was always "one of the boys"... but that did not make me a boy in the slightest. I was a girl with different preferences than what was typical or expected. I feel like "gender" is just a new word for "personality". You do not need to get gender reassignment surgery because you would rather spend your weekend fishing and dirt biking than dressing up and putting on makeup. I'm now happily married for almost 20 years. If I was born now, I'm afraid I would have been transitioned and I would have thought that was the right thing for me because I didn't play with dolls or like the colour pink. Sexuality has nothing to do with personality (and children don't understand the sex part in any case.)
On RU-vid, I've run into some psychological regret: simply wanting and feeling the natal sex again, even without medical dissatisfaction. However, whatever medically has been done, is a hindrance to the detransitioning. How much is this influencing the data?
We haven't seen any fresh research on helping people accept their birth gender or using new therapies to prevent homosexuality in high risk boys in decades. Past research centered on psycho analytical techniques and poorly designed behavior modification rather than addressing common family issues, history of abuse, bullying by peers and view of self. However, conversion therapy, even if it's the patient's request is illegal so no further research can be done! Since hormones and surgery have many risks, therapists and researchers need to find new combined therapies (family, CBT, hypnosis, change of peer group) to help willing patients develop positive heterosexual image and attraction. However, the false idea that, "You can be anything you want to be" has laid the groundwork for self-centeredness and laid the groundwork for transgenderism. Unfortunately, in traditional Christian societies, people had no answers of how to help people with gender dysphoria or homosexual attraction, even though most perceived these as wrong. Today we have family breakdown and few sexual standards, naturally many become confused about a myriad of issues. Churches need to make preventing divorce, refer troubled spouses to Christian therapists and set up Christian schools and apprenticeships with Christian people to make the Christian community stronger, with clear lines of what is allowed or not permitted. Most people cannot handle much ambiguity, especially when they have to sort out issues alone. Churches should learn from the conservative Mennonite churches where the community offers lots of support, members are accountable and divorces are rare. The community must have clear standards, lots of support, lots if teamwork and responsibility and separation from the world. In most churches, the lines between believers and unbelievers in thought and behavior are too blurry instead of being a committed brotherhood as seen among conservative Mennonites and New Order Amish.
I was born female and never fixated on my biological sex until....I started to enter my teen years, I started to turn into attractive girl and my narcissistsic mother started to be envious of me, long story short she made me hate my woman parts for whole 2 years until I reckognized that my dysphoria feelings were coming from her inability to deal with her envy. At this point this dysphoria was completely gone. But some children fail to reckognize the roots of the problem. Imo main roots of gender dysphoria - abusive parenting. You can argue of course. I never percieve myself as a woman even now, I'm a person, a soul if you want, that happen to be born in woman's body. Fixating on one's body and sex is a mental disorder
Actually that just called respecting them. If someone's name is Jonathan and they ask you to call them John, its really rude to keep calling them Jonathan
@@geekygecko1849 no actually you are just lying to them and confirming their lie when you call them by their imaginary gender. As Christians we are not called to lie and deceive.
@@geekygecko1849 so its ok to lie if it makes someone feel better? No you don't sacrifice your Christian faith to appease those who live in sin. We are called to be truthful not to lie. You do not agree with and tell the schizophrenic that the toaster is talking to them. You only cause further harm to these people by affirming their lies and in turn you harm those around you by allowing that lie to be truth.
You should invite Dr. Quentin Van Meter. I'm sure he'd be willing to speak with you about this. He was at John Hopkins University when Money was there and can discuss the issue of disorders of sexual development.
Right. You are either male or female at birth unless you are a true hermaphrodite, but those are so extremely rare as to be almost nonexistent. God is the one who assigns the gender at birth and if we choose to say no, I was born with the wrong sex, you’re calling God a liar and telling Him that He made a mistake. Good luck with that.
Dear @Cristina Bivins When the sperm of your father and the egg of your mother united to form you, half of your genetic makeup came from your father and half came from your mother. The chromosomes form each combine to form a genetically distinct individual human being ...... You ! The chromosome that determine one's biological sex is the 23 third chromosome. The chromosome is paired and how they are "paired" on the 23 third chromosome determines you biological sexual anatomy and is detectable in every cell of your body. However, there are some genetic anomalies that on rare circumstances does not exactly follow this rule (we are speaking about what normally occurs) If your paired 23 third chromosome had an "X" chromosome and a "Y' chromosome, you would very probably would have been a biological male. The presence of the "Y" chromosome is what determines a person’s biological sex. That would be detectable in every cell of your body and does not change. Once you are a biological male or biological female, that does not change. I am assuming that you are a biological female which would mean that every cell in your body would have two "X" chromosomes pairs on the 23 third chromosome. This makes you a biological female, and this would be your biological sex, assigned at birth, by genetics, at your conception. Be Well, DZ
I had HS biology, thanks. We shouldn't use *their* words. It's not “assigned at birth” or “biological”, it's either male or female -no modifiers needed.
@@cristinabivins2240 , You said, "It's not “assigned at birth” or “biological”. Well, yes and no. Actually biological sex is assigned at conception, but many people do not know what biological sex is assigned until actual birth, though we now have the technology to find out the biological sex before actual birth.. This "assignment" is not a human determination, meaning that humans do not assign what biological sex a person is. What I said is quite accurate. You said, "It's either male or female". generally speaking that is true if the 23 third chromosome is paired "X", "X" then the child is female. If it is "X", "Y" then generally a male. However, there are some rare anomalies such as "Klinefelter Syndrome" ( "X", "X", "X") and "47,XYY Syndrome" ("X", "Y", "Y") in which there are triplets, instead of pairs of chromosomes. From the perspective of the Christian Worldview, the effects of the fall distorted the genetics of humanity, and genetic anomalies do exist. If you disagree, then identify what you disagree with and explain why you disagree. Be Well, DZ
Whatever you do to yourself (or others), it's still you on the other side of the act. So make sure you know what your real issues are before taking any sort of voluntary radical action, I suppose would be wise.
I suggest listening to post transition experiences such as Genspectt. They have people experience in the field. They are very keen to improve support for detransitioners however they at no point in any way at all imply that everyone has to detransition.
The WHO doesn't recognise and dropped dysphoria from their directives, so are they actually recording transitioning and detransitioning? I would have thought most people would have done so privately and without some supposed professional input. I don't think anyone knows how many transitioned or detransitioned. The Scottish bill seeks to make it a self-determining issue.
Little is preparing people to change. Each person needs psychoanalysis befor they should change. You are worth it remember this! Many diagnosis are made by novices with no degree.
This is a stretch and may be difficult to correlate or connect. In scripture, Jesus encountered people who were "demon possessed." Researching and attempting to understand exactly what that was, is subjective, but can we identify some thing like that in our contemporary culture. Could gender dysphoria correlate in any way?
@Dr Sean McDowell I would LOVE, and I think it would be SUPER helpful if you could do a segment on the demonic toys for our youth that are pushed and available everywhere. I have grandkids and they are, of course, sucked into all this Harry Potter and Pokémon crap, and I don’t know how to approach my daughter about it. I think she thinks it’s hysterical for me to even put any emphasis on it. She’s on the verge of becoming a believer, as she is beginning to see God working in her life. Thanks for the consideration. :)
Tbh, it is crazy. Harry Potter is fiction about wizards and whimsical adventures, it doesn't actually support the use of real life magic. Pokemon is a show that mostly emphasizes hard work and the value of friendship and strong bonds. I know media may come off as a bit weird or not what we may be used to, but it's nowhere even close to demonic and you shouldn't just label it so because it's not what we are used to.
@@MrWynne-zb4kp I let my 20 yr old son watch them when he was little (even though his Christian grandma was against it). That was before I knew the dangers of the influences of the spiritual realm! There's no way my 5 & 6 yr old son will ever watch them!
I’m really shocked that you are praising Preston Sprinkle and his Embodied book as a good resource. I started going through his program a couple of years ago and it was clear with a few sessions that he was not coming from a Biblical perspective. I recently listened to Becket Cook’s 3 part episode with Rosaria Butterfield and Christopher Yuan. It confirmed to me that my hesitation in finishing his course was correct.
I guess to look into differential diagnosis would be perceived as the same crime as deadnaming. Theiir invented terms just show extremist mindset. Gender is a spectrum they like to lecture but if I don‘t instantly see where in the spectrum the person I come across randomly wants to be perceived as, I‘m a hater, a „cccisss hettt“ The whole ideology is so nonsensical that they had to invent new language to exclude and silence anyone who dares to think the nonsense through and point out the totally irrational theory. Even scientific terms were changed to fit their outlandish narrative. It lacks any logic and is completely based on a belief that was pushed by powerful wealthy political ideologists and a handful of AGPs. When ideologists and fetishists have influence on classification of „transsexuality“ and suddenly a mental disorder is a physical condition that is treated w cosmetic surgery no one should wonder why suddenly masses of unhappy teens think they are „trans“… No therapy that demands commitement and compliance but an all affirming fulfillment of imagined selfs, dreamed of, developed over months, sometimes even days only, while looking at „beautiful and famous ppl online“ to think „oh now I get whats wrong w me. I’m just like this transman/-woman and I’m going to soon be my authentic self, exactly as famous & beautiful, not lonely, struggling, socially awkward anymore! I want to transition, the sooner the better.“ „Consequences, risks? Who cares? I’m gonna feel great, everyone will see how my self will change and how succesful I will be, everyone will love me.“ („And all the „cis hets“ have no idea, don’t know what they are talking about and there‘s no point in explaining them anyway bc they all hate us and they are just jealous… Very easy to reject any questions, just insult.“Isn‘t that a very immature attitude? It‘s very common in the loving welcoming community… Why could that be🤔) And no, I don‘t hate transpeople, I‘m tired of the extremists who promote affirming care, who demand whatever they wish, threatening us and still talking of themselves as oppressed minority, pushing their agenda at the cost of many kids, teens, women.
"The church has never had a good approach to ..." Sorry. Not true. The first century church has an excellent approach that dealt with sexual deviance of all forms. I am in progress of writing a book detailing it and how we had it taken away and it now needs to be returned to the church for just this time!
Trying to transplant a womb into a man while women are dying in childbirth all over the world for lack of basic obstetric care is the epitome of privilege.
I can't tell if this discussion is advocating for transitions. Or at least giving it a platform. Admittedly, it was turned down while i was taking a bath..am i wrong? Please tell me im wrong.
It certainly takes the view that this is some real vs induced condition that somehow is being " discovered " by huge numbers of people vs. a socially indoctrinated psychosis . Unbelievable .
I think you did a really good job here acknowledging your own biases while still trying to look at the real picture. I found that if you meet one transgender person and know their story you've met only one transgender person and know their story. They're just too many variables for any kind of generalization. But I think no matter anyone's opinion, doing this to children is a horrible idea. Just from a biological perspective they're not fully grown. I mean at least let the dough finish baking before you try and change the cake.
The genuine trans people have my support. Unfortunately most of them these days are not genuine. They are sexual predators seeking easy access to young women and little girls and sporting glory where they have failed as men. The percentage of trans people used to be around 0.05% now with all this child grooming going on in schools and universities it has suddenly leapt to 10% WTF. ???????
It would be interesting to hear you have a conversation with Stella O’Malley of Genspect, and/or to include her co-host of the podcast, “gender, a wider lens.” They are key players in the movement to take a thoughtful and evidence-based approach to this issue. Genspect just hosted a conference in Ireland at the same time as EPATH (European professional association for transgender health) to offer a different and more nuanced view than the current mainstream narrative.
A very good video and nice to look at this very controversial subject from a non polarized standpoint to try and gain a more honest and faithful position. It seems hard to find a place to do this that I feel is important as a Christian priest. England
We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Shouldb we be supporting a christian who wants to change that? Example: I have dyslexia, I finally came to a place where i said ok God You gave this to me and You gave it to me for a reason.
