Dystopian Nightmare of Medical Gender Transition (Hank Unplugged Short)

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, reads from a poignant, acutely distressing article by Ritchie Herron, “A Detransitioner’s Perspective: Awakening from the Dream of Gender Utopia,” published by Human Events. Ritchie writes and speaks in a very compelling fashion. “I was 25, an adult,” he explains, “but a vulnerable adult with high traits of autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and substance misuse issues. Like many, I was captured by the idea that I was less than perfect. The solution to my imperfection was to be laid on a path that would lead to a degree of unimaginable self-destruction, through irreversible surgeries that have turned me into a lifelong medical patient, reliant on synthetic hormones, as well as being under constant supervision for ongoing complications related to the deeply invasive surgery. This was all in the name of the promised Gender Utopia, where we were all free to be ourselves, express ourselves without boundaries, and celebrate our individuality in an explosion of liberation and autonomy, yet, at the age of 35, almost a decade after embarking on this deeply destructive journey, I’ve come to realize this is not the Gender Utopia we were promised.”

See Ritchie Herron, “A Detransitioner’s Perspective: Awakening from the Dream of Gender Utopia,” Human Events, September 13, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20220915085236/https:/www.humanevents.com/2022/09/13/a-detransitioner-s-perspective-awakening-from-the-dream-of-gender-utopia

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answerman broadcast with another Hank Unplug short.
0:22.1	This one may be hard to get through.
0:24.1	I'm actually using as the basis for this Hank Unplugged an article that I read on the human events website.
0:37.4	It's an article titled D-Transitioner's Perspective,
0:43.8	subtitled Awakening from the Dream of Gender, Utopia. An article written by Richie Herron,
1:01.5	and I guess it was posted September 13, 2022, so it's very, very recent.
1:16.2	Richie talks in an interview he did on the Charlie Kirk Show about the multi-billion dollar transgender market.
1:20.9	There's a lot of money in these hills.
1:35.1	Androgen blockers, which purport to thwart testosterone, estrogen, that can cost somewhere in the vicinity of 30,000 per year.
1:43.2	Genital surgery, where you get rid of the penis and you build a vagina by drilling a hole in the pelvis.
1:50.8	We're talking about medical mutilation, top to bottom surgery.
1:55.2	Again, a multi-billion, maybe a trillion dollar industry, I don't know.
2:06.0	But Richie writes and speaks, by the way, in a very compelling fashion.
2:13.5	Richie was 25, a vulnerable adult with high traits of autism,
2:22.3	obsessive, compulsive disorder, and substance misuse. I like this, substance misuse instead of what's typically said substance abuse issues.
2:29.3	Richie says, like many, I was captured by the idea that I was less than perfect and that the solution to my imperfection was to be laid on a path that would lead to a degree of unimaginable self-destruction.
2:51.2	Self-destruction through irreversible surgeries
2:53.9	that turned me into a lifelong medical patient,
3:00.9	a patient reliant on synthetic hormones
3:04.2	under constant supervision,
3:15.3	supervision for complications related to deeply invasive surgery.
3:22.3	And all of this, says Richie was in the name of the promised gender utopia.
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