Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Many inevitable social movements have turned out to be not so inevitable.

And the most notable recent example is transgenderism.

And the latest development of this fast-moving story earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a

Tennessee law that prohibited so-called transgender care for minors, including hormone therapy

and sex reassignment procedures. Now, predictably, the American Psychological Association,

through a fit about the ruling, scolding the court for disregarding, and I quote here,

decades of psychological research and clinical

consensus, and jeopardizing the health and well-being of transgender youth. Aside from further

eroding their public credibility, the APA statement ignores the obvious fact that any consensus

around so-called transgender care and identity is collapsing. Somebody needs to tell

the American Psychological Association that it's not 2016 anymore. First, there was the

cast report, which questioned key claims of transgender medicalization, and then there was the

closing of Britain's only gender clinic, the Tavistock Clinic. Also, in recent days, in addition to this Supreme Court ruling, L.A. Children's Hospital announced

it would close its Center for Transgender Youth, one of the largest and oldest clinics of its kind,

and a hub for so-called gender reassignment surgeries on children for years.

Also in recent days, L.A. Children's Hospital announced

it would close its center for transgender youth, one of the largest and oldest clinics of its kind,

a hub for gender reassignment surgeries on children. And public opinion has also shifted.

Earlier this year, the Pew Research Group reported that about two-thirds of adults

now support policies that require trans athletes to compete on teams that match their biology.

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