Helping Your Child Thrive with Gender Confidence (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Families feel like they are caught in the middle of a transgender war. But instead of responding with fear or anger, Christian parents need to show compassion, hope, truth, and confidence to kids and teens who may be experiencing gender confusion. Drs. Kathy Koch and Jeff Myers offer helpful insights and godly truth about this contentious issue in today’s culture.

Receive the book Raising Gender Confident Kids plus a free audio download of "Helping Your Child Thrive with Gender Confidence" for your donation of any amount! Plus, receive member-exclusive benefits when you make a recurring gift today. Your monthly support helps families thrive.

Get More Episode Resources

If you enjoyed listening to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, please give us your feedback.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new
0:05.6	documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose
0:11.1	courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how
0:17.4	you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration.
0:22.4	Sign up at truthrising.com.
0:24.8	That's truthrising.com.
0:30.8	I don't understand it.
0:32.2	You're either male or female.
0:33.8	There's nothing in between.
0:35.1	He, gee, they, them.
0:40.3	I can't keep it all straight. No matter what I say,
0:46.0	I feel like I'm going to offend somebody. When she decided to transition, I've wondered how to stay friends, but also tell her the truth. Well, statements like those reflect some of the
0:52.2	confusion and fear and even anger that many people have about gender issues today.
0:57.9	And we're going to explore this really complex topic today and learn how we as parents can help our kids to navigate the turmoil.
1:05.5	Welcome to another episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller.
1:09.7	John, this is a difficult topic, gender dysphoria.
1:13.2	It's really come onto the scenes in a powerful way since 2018, 2019. That's when it kind of flooded
1:20.2	into the public square. So it's a relatively new phenomena. And a lot of Christian parents don't even know
1:26.4	how to talk about it, how to engage their kids about it.
1:30.3	Public schools are way ahead of parents in terms of the issue.
1:35.3	And there's a lot of friction being created.
1:38.3	About 50% as I understand it, about 50% of public schools do a lot to encourage a child to go with a different gender.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Focus on the Family, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Focus on the Family and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.