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Father Gregory, I am happy to be here with you today, a worthy companion, and happier still to welcome to this episode of guest explaining Mary Margaret O'Lahan, the author of a new book, D-Trans, which tells the true stories of those who have escaped the gender ideology called Mary Margaret, we're so happy to have you with us. Welcome to the show.

I'm so happy to be here.

Thanks for having me.

This book is so important.

I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it here again.

I really think that the

transgender ideology question is the most pressing moral issue of our time.

It's an extremely important issue for the personal good of those involved in it, for the Catholic

Church which has an opportunity here to offer moral clarity, and for our culture because obviously

this is going to have so many downstream effects.

But you're one of the few people who's writing about this and really working hard on this issue.

So what inspired you to write Detrans?

How did you become aware of the stories that you're telling in the book?

Well, I first started diving into the topic a couple years ago when I was already reporting on gender ideology as kind of a culture of wars reporter and I got into that beat because I grew up in a very big serious Catholic family.

We were homeschooled and we spent a lot of time

talking about why we were homeschooled, for example,

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