With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Recently, author Christopher Rufo tweeted an excerpt from a 2018 publication of the American

Psychological Association, citing a whole litany of crazy terms, including gender smoothies,

gender prehist, gender minotaur, and more.

In its typical cyber-sensorship fashion, Twitter quickly attached a fact-check note to the

tweet, which states that these are only a list of descriptions offered by the patient's

not actual diagnoses, however the social media giant just obscured Rufo's legitimate concern

and point, which is how the APA's publication supports unquestioningly submitting to a child's

self-diagnosis and description.

The author's right this, children will lead the way in carving out their own self-descriptions,

categorizations, and assignations of gender.

Of course, anyone struggling with any mental health issue needs the space to describe their

feelings and experiences, however, the goal of therapy is to bring that understanding

of the world in line with reality on no other issue our patients, especially child patients,

allowed to self-diagnose like this.

And Twitter should have noted that, and that to deny reality is wrong and dangerous.

The Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.