Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Thanks for joining me today at my little corner of the internet.

This is the off the bench podcast. And today I'm going to pick up and keep building on what we were talking about yesterday.

Yesterday, I spoke a little bit about transgenderism and the heart of God. And why the church has to be in front of this issue and not behind it.

Today, I'm going to tackle the issue of gender dysphoria. I think we can begin to start unpacking this as women of faith, as men and women who understand God's word and are

able to get out and defend it in the culture. And so today we're going to be talking about something that you need to understand, which is social contagion.

Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Well, welcome to the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening for those of you who are tuning in for the first time at YouTube.

I'm glad that you guys are finding me at our station here at YouTube. You can notice that the studio is getting a little bit of a facelift.

My friend Zach Lesnavich from Ashes to Beauty Northwest is making us a new furniture and we're giving the studio just a little bit of an upgrade.

We're not done yet. So keep watching. Things are kind of moving slowly, but surely in a good direction here at the show.

I want to jump right into the topic of gender dysphoria today because I'm seeing so much, you know, yes, last week I talked about Dylan Mulvaney and then this week on the show on Monday.

I played a little bit of a clip from the ultra podcast, which of course is being hosted by a man who claims to be non binary, which by the way is imaginary.

You can't be non binary. You are born male or female. And so these words, this terminology, this woke ideology, these lies that have permeated permeated our school system first in our universities.

And now in our high schools and even our elementary schools, these are insidious lies that up until recently everyone agreed relies.

But we are watching as the world spends farther and farther away from the truth of God's word and away from just being rooted in anything that resembles reality.

We're watching how these lies have permeated the culture.

And so I wrote a Bible study on identity called a Mago Day created known and loved.

And we've been studying that for the month of October at Mom Stronger International.

I really want to invite you to join me at Mom Stronger International. This really is the heartbeat that started with a book that I wrote in 2017 called Becoming Mom Strong.

How to fight with all that's in you for your family and your faith.

And in that book, I tackled the issue of transgenderism. If you haven't picked up becoming Mom Strong, it's available anywhere that books are sold.

I have a brand new devotional coming out next year called Mom Strong 365 everyday truths for everyday moms. I cannot wait for that to come out.

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