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Best of Breakpoint 2022: Parents of Transgender-Desiring Kids Must Play the Long Game

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In a culture where nearly 1 in 5 of Gen Z calls themselves "LGBT," it's crucial that parents pray hard, stay true, and remember the long game. 

This Point was originally published on August 2, 2022.

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This week on Breakpoint, we're looking back at some of the most important commentaries

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of 2022.

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Hi, this is John Stone Street, host of Breakpoint.

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Our goal with each and every Breakpoint commentaries to help you think about life and culture

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from a Christian worldview and live accordingly.

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Please join us in this work and help others live like Christians in these challenging times.

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Just go to colsoncenter.org slash December.

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That's colsoncenter.org slash December to make a gift.

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Here's Breakpoint.

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With our kids, we often have to play the long game.

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For the colsoncenter, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

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In a recent article with the Gospel Coalition, writer Sarah Zilstra tells the story of a Christian

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family with a team who once identified as transgender.

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Quote, I started to associate womanhood with being sexualized as Grace, who's now 16.

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Peers, teachers, counselors, above all social media circles, guided Grace toward a strong

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case of what's known as rap and onset gender dysphoria.

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She stopped wearing feminine clothes, she asked her parents to refer to her as they them.

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At the moment, at many parents fear.

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These parents prayed hard.

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They stayed true.

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They remember the long game.

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They built relationships with her, described Zilstra.

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