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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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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.
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0:00.0 | You're not crazy. You're not alone. You do not have to believe what people at school say to you. |
0:07.5 | They do not love you. They do not know you. God loves you and God knows you. |
0:13.5 | That relaxes somebody so they can think, okay, I just need a little bit better perspective. |
0:20.3 | That's Dr. Jeff Myers with an important reminder that gender confusion doesn't define your |
0:25.8 | identity or the identity of your child. |
0:29.1 | Dr. Myers and Dr. Kathy Cook joined us last time on Focus on the Family, and we're looking |
0:33.8 | forward to more of their insights today. |
0:36.6 | I'm John Fuller, and thanks for joining us. |
0:39.3 | John, the discussion yesterday was really good. |
0:42.3 | I mean, we don't touch this topic very often, |
0:45.3 | but so many parents write to us or call us |
0:47.3 | or talk to our counseling team about these issues of their children |
0:51.3 | who are experiencing gender dysphoria or transgenderism in school. |
0:56.7 | It's getting reinforced in some schools, not every school. |
0:59.9 | But it's an issue, and it's important for us as the broader community of focus on the family |
1:06.0 | to know what's happening and to be able to help our parents better understand how to communicate |
1:11.6 | with their preteens and teens. |
1:14.1 | And so that's the spirit in which we're coming after this topic of transgenderism in the |
1:20.2 | public square today. |
1:22.2 | And that's the goal of our discussion. |
1:24.6 | Again, if you missed it last time, you can go to the website, download it, |
1:27.6 | get the smartphone app, and listen to it that way. That way you have access to all of the |
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