Gender Transition for Minors: What Does the Research Say?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The data is overwhelming. Contrary to what is consistently filling our newsfeeds, there is a disturbing lack of evidence that intervening in a child's gender development produces beneficial results of any kind. More than that, many studies are showing a strong potential for lasting harm.
Love must speak the truth. As gentle as we must be with those who struggle with whom God created them to be, or even those who profess to be our enemies in this cultural tug-of-war, the Church has to stand for what is true about humanity, including God's good creation of the human body and the inherent value each person has since they bear His image.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. |
| 0:06.3 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
| 0:09.5 | Even while many nations pump the breaks on radical transgender ideology and health care practices, |
| 0:15.2 | Americans at both the state and federal level continue to push culture-wide affirmation, |
| 0:20.7 | the social transition of minors, |
| 0:22.6 | hormone therapies, and even harmful surgeries. Advocates frequently claim that so-called and |
| 0:28.0 | misnamed gender-affirming treatments, including surgery, save lives, that gender dysphoria is a |
| 0:33.8 | permanent condition among minors, and that regret by those who undergo such treatments are |
| 0:39.2 | minimal or maybe even non-existent. Well, increasingly, research is suggesting otherwise. Until |
| 0:45.0 | recently, activists were able to hide behind a very limited number of studies, some of which |
| 0:50.1 | even seemed to confirm what those activists wanted to hear. No more. With a 900% increase in |
| 0:56.9 | young people claiming gender dysphoria, the amount of data in recent years has sharply increased. |
| 1:02.5 | And the direction that data now points is almost overwhelming. Contrary to what is consistently |
| 1:08.8 | filling our news feeds these days, there's a disturbing lack of evidence that intervening in a child's normal gender development produces beneficial results of any kind. Even more than that, many studies are showing a strong potential for lasting harm. |
| 1:22.6 | Last month, for example, Dr. Stan Weed, with the Institute for Research and Evaluation, produced an invaluable paper on this subject. |
| 1:31.1 | It was entitled, Transgender Research, Five Things Every Parent and Policymakers Should Know. |
| 1:37.5 | In it, We'd summarizes dozens of studies from around the world on five of the most hotly debated transgender talking points. For example, |
| 1:45.8 | about the benefits and harms of cross-sex medical treatment for minors, the highly respected |
| 1:52.7 | British medical journal concluded, quote, puberty blockers are being used in the context of |
| 1:58.1 | profound scientific ignorance. There are a large number of |
| 2:01.7 | unanswered questions that include the age at start, reversibility, adverse events, long-term |
| 2:07.8 | effects on mental health, quality of life, bone mineral density, osteoporosis, and later life, |
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