Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, in an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

As I said recently on another Breakpoint commentary, there will be a point at which the world will need to reckon with just how.

Over the last decade, an obviously unscientific claim that men can become women and vice versa

birthed an obviously anti-scientific movement that then won the endorsement of so much of

the scientific and medical community in the developed world. And a major part of this story

will be how dissent was silenced. Last week, the University of Louisville agreed to pay nearly

$1.6 million in damages and attorney's fees to Dr. Allen Josephson. For nearly 15 years,

Dr. Josephson led the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology at the university,

helping it to become a nationally recognized program.

But then in 2017, in a panel discussion that was hosted by the Heritage Foundation,

Dr. Josephson spoke out about how minors were being treated for gender dysphoria.

As he put it, and I quote, parents, children need help, and they aren't getting help.

Dr. Josephson expressed his view as a medical professional that the psychological issues that so often cause gender confusion should be understood and treated, and children should not simply be rushed into radical invasive and aggressive treatment, like puberty blockingblocking drugs and cross-sex hormones.

Truth matters, the doctor said, but is taking a second place to this radical ideology.

Almost immediately, university officials began to target Dr. Josephson for expressing these views.

He was demoted. In 2019, his contract was not renewed.

In addition to losing his job,

despite outstanding performance reviews, his peers turned on him. Here's how he described

the experience to Fox News. Quote, what was the hardest to take? I think the personal is always the

hardest. I had people who were part of my group, my colleagues, stopped talking to me.

It was just the most amazing thing. And it became personal when really I was just trying to make a

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