What are the sociological effects for women from trans ideology?

How do we think biblically, given our confused cultural moment about sex, gender, and identity?

What does all this mean for those of us who want to reach and disciple Gen Z?

These are some of the questions we are going to explore today with our guest, Katie McCoy, author of To Be a Woman.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

This is the Think Biblically podcast brought to by Talbot School, Theology, Biola University.

Katie, you sent me your paper that you presented at Evangelical Theological Society, and I think it's fantastic,

and you connected some dots for me on these issues, and I've been studying this for a while,

so I can't wait for our listeners to hear this. But let me start with an illustration.

You jump right in your paper, and you talk about something called a social theory known as

the spiral of silence. What is it? What kind of historical

injustices can be attributed to it? And how does it relate to the transgender movement? Yeah,

Sean and Scott, so great to be with you. So the spiral of science is a theory that was developed

by a German political scientist named Elizabeth Noel Newman. And she was really

trying to explain the inexplicable. And, you know, coming out just about a generation after World War II,

the Holocaust, the great human atrocities that occurred there. And she noted that because humanity,

we are social beings, that so often we would call it self-censorship, but we often temper what we would say, if not quiet, completely

our opinions, if we find that those opinions do not fit with what is accepted by the majority.

So the spiral is that not only do people be quiet about opinions that they think would isolate them,

but as a result then, the majority opinion believes that they're the only one, they're the only show in town.

They're the only valid opinion

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