Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw registration is open for the first ever theology in the raw conference that is March 31st through April 2nd, 2022.

You can attend live here in Boise. There is limited space. So if you do want to come live, then sign up early at pressensprinkle.com. You can go to my website pressensprinkle.com and register there.

Or if you can't or don't want to come out to the conference and attend it live, you can stream it online. All the information is on my website pressensprinkle.com.

We're going to be talking about race. We're going to be talking about politics. We're going to be talking about sexuality, gender, critical race, theory, hell, transgender identities.

Climate change, creation, care, American politics and what it means to love your democratic or Republican neighbor as yourself.

It is going to be an uncomfortable conference in that there's going to be different views presented. You're going to be challenged to think we are going to platform ideas that you disagree with.

And you're going to have to think through that. And we're going to have an amazing lineup of speakers.

Derwin Gray, Thibidi, Anubwale, Edmund Wickham, Jackie Elpary, John Tyson, Greg Coles, Sandy Richter, Edgisinski, Ellie Bonilla, Junior, Tony Scarcella, Chris State, and several others. And I'm still waiting here.

So I'm so excited about this. We're also going to have an after party on Friday night. We're going to have opportunities for you to engage each other, engage with me and the other speakers.

And it's going to be my goal is that this would be just a Christian conference like no other. We want to break all the rules of what it means to have a Christian conference.

So press us for go.com. You can check out the info there. The podcast today is a rather sensitive one.

I don't know. Maybe I say that about every single podcast, but we're going to be talking about a very contested controversial and volatile topic that goes by the name of rapid onset gender dysphoria.

I've got three parents, three different parents on the show.

Each one has a child who has gone through what scholars have referred to as rapid onset gender dysphoria. What is rapid onset gender dysphoria?

The psychological term coined by Dr. Lisa Litman from Brown University in a study that she published in 2018 on she surveyed 250 parents that had teenage kids who came out as trans seemingly out of nowhere.

The baseline commonality of rapid onset gender dysphoria rapid onset describes the quickness by which many teenagers seem to be experiencing either gender dysphoria or simply coming out as trans.

In other words, they didn't have any like prior history of gender dysphoria growing up.

It's a massive increase in people who would fit this profile. For instance, there's been a 5,000% increase among females teenage females in the UK who are going to gender clinics.

There's also a lot of mental health issues that many of these teens are experiencing.

So according to Lisa Litman's survey of 250 parents, 63% of the kids referred to in the study had one or more diagnoses of a psychiatric disorder or neuro developmental disability preceding preceding the onset of gender dysphoria.

48% have experienced a traumatic or stressful event prior to their dysphoria, 45% were engaging in self harm prior to the dysphoria.

So it's not like, well, yeah, it's because they're not accepted by society and that's causing all these things.

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