S3 23: Rescuing Our Children from Transgender Ideology With Maria Keffler
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Maria Keffler is a mother, educator, and author who dedicates her time to helping parents whose children are being taken captive by the lies of the transgender movement. In our conversation, Maria shows us how this social and cultural movement is capturing young people. We discuss how we can join the fight for the hearts and minds of these young people, show them where their identity lies, and highlight the significance and beauty of God's design for them.
Maria's Website Advocates Protecting Children
Desist, Detrans, Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult by Maria Keffler
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| 0:00.0 | Strong women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference online. |
| 0:12.2 | Use promo code Strong Women, which is all one word, to get $5 off of the $49 ticket price. |
| 0:20.2 | For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, |
| 0:25.3 | breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian Worldview Conference at your own |
| 0:30.9 | leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:56.4 | And I'm Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:57.4 | Glad you're here. |
| 1:07.6 | Our guest today is Maria Keffler, who is a co-founder of advocates protecting children, |
| 1:13.8 | which helps individuals, families, churches, and organizations navigate the transgender ideology. Maria is a mother, educator, and author who dedicates her time to helping parents |
| 1:21.3 | whose children are being taken captive by the lies of the transgender movement. And in our conversation, Maria shows us how this social and cultural movement is capturing our young people. |
| 1:34.8 | We discuss how we can join the fight for the hearts and minds of these young people |
| 1:40.2 | to show them where their identity truly lies, and to highlight the significance and |
| 1:46.4 | beauty of God's design for them. I think you'll enjoy this conversation. Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:53.5 | Maria, we are so grateful to have you today. Thanks for spending this time with us. |
| 1:57.5 | Thank you so much for inviting me, Sarah and Erin. I'm really looking forward to talking to both |
| 2:01.7 | of you today. We'll see what you say after the whole interview is over. I'm getting you. I'm sure I'll say |
| 2:06.9 | that was awesome. I know. Yeah. Well, I want to know where you grew up. Did you grow up in a |
| 2:13.1 | Christian home? I did. Yeah. I grew up in Northern Indiana. I grew up in the United Methodist Church, |
| 2:18.5 | going to church all my life and church camp in the summer. When I went away to, I would say even a little |
| 2:24.7 | bit before I went away to college, probably when I was around 16, I started walking away a little |
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