Cultural Update: $2 Million Gender Medicine Verdict; AI Boyfriends; Politics at the Grammys
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A legal decision that could change gender medicine. |
| 0:05.0 | AI boyfriends being increasingly used by women, |
| 0:09.0 | the moral dilemma when a spouse refuses to let go of a dying loved one, |
| 0:13.0 | and celebrities using their platforms at the Grammys to make political statements. |
| 0:18.0 | These are the stories we'll cover and will address some of your questions. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm your host Scott Ray and sitting in for Sean who's traveling today as my Talbot colleague in theology, Dr. Eric Tonnis. This is the Think Biblically weekly cultural update |
| 0:30.1 | from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Eric, so glad to have you with us again. |
| 0:35.1 | Super looking forward to your insights on all these stories and the questions that we'll be addressing, too. |
| 0:40.6 | Thanks, Scott. |
| 0:41.2 | I always enjoy talking with you. |
| 0:43.2 | This first story is one from the free press entitled, a landmark legal decision on gender medicine. |
| 0:51.1 | Widely reported in other media outlets, it's a story of a young woman who goes by the |
| 0:56.0 | name Fox Varian, her given name was Isabella, who had a deeply troubled background, parents |
| 1:02.7 | divorced at age seven, mental health issues coming out of that such as depression, anxiety, |
| 1:08.9 | social phobia. And then as the article describes, with her first menstrual period, |
| 1:12.8 | went into a mental health crisis that gave way to an eating disorder, body image issues. |
| 1:18.6 | And she began seeing a therapist, but around age 15, |
| 1:24.0 | she began to question her gender and began the female to male transition. |
| 1:29.6 | She changed her name from Isabella to Gabriel, began binding her breasts, went public |
| 1:34.5 | that she was trans, and then at 16, she had a double mastectomy. |
| 1:39.8 | Three years later, she stopped identifying as trans, realized that her mental health issues were |
| 1:45.6 | not improved, and joined the ranks, which is now a pretty significant number, of adolescent |
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