It's Monday, November 21st, 2022. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing. A daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Let's put it this way. The medical

establishment has given us very great gifts, but some of those gifts have come with a very

great cost. And we also need to recognize that modern medicine is a part of modern culture.

It is inseparable from the larger culture and from the larger moral questions. And one of

the things we need to recognize is that sometimes medical authorities get things wrong, badly

wrong, horribly wrong. And the complicity of the medical establishment, even the mainstream

medical establishment, with the transgender ideology as not only wrong, it is something

that will come with tremendous and horrifying human costs. And we're now beginning to see

this show up. This is one of the points that many of us have been making over the course

of the last several years. You cannot defy creation without cost to the creature. That's

a fundamental principle, the Christian worldview. You cannot defy creation without a tremendous

cost to the creature. And when you look at the transgender ideology, you understand this

is coming with an incredible cost indeed. And these costs are not evenly distributed.

Some of these costs are particularly costly when it comes to the youngest among us. Now

this is why a front page article that is run in recent days and the New York Times is

so important. Because I really think it's functioning as a signal that there is at least

a tinge of conscience in the medical community and that medical mainstream that is causing

it to rethink some of its excitement of and support for an affirmation of the transgender

ideology and its medical manifestations. In particular, drugs being given to children

and teenagers known as hormone suppressants or puberty blockers. This front page article

in the New York Times comes with these words, quote, pressing pause on puberty within

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