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Breakpoint

Supporting Families with Gender Dysphoric Kids & Understanding Manhood and Womanhood - BreakPoint Q&A

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

John and Shane consider how to support families who have children wrestling with gender identity. A listener writes in asking for ideas, as some in his own family are navigating gender dysphoria.

Then, Shane asks John for a way to think well on manhood and womanhood, noting the natural gender breaks with speakers like Jordan Peterson. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center.

0:09.0

I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint.

0:14.0

I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint.

0:19.0

And we are answering your questions this time about what to do when your teenagers fall into transgender ideology,

0:25.1

Jordan Peterson's appeal and biblical manhood and womanhood.

0:29.1

These questions were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, articles, and the Colson Fellows program.

0:34.6

If you'd like to send us a question of your own, all you need to do is email us.

0:38.1

The address is Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, our first question today is one

0:44.1

of those questions that just bulls you over. When I read this a few minutes before we started,

0:48.6

I was just deeply moved and grieved and frustrated on behalf of this dad who's writing in.

0:56.1

This is a tough one.

0:57.1

And I think it's going to be the kind of question many more Christian parents have in the

1:02.2

not too distant future.

1:03.2

And so I'll read it and we'll tackle it because we have talked a lot about this,

1:06.9

but this is where it gets personal.

1:09.3

His dad writes in,

1:09.9

my youngest daughter who is 12 years, recently told us that she thinks

1:13.3

she should be a boy.

1:15.2

We handled this as best we could through love and explain that our love for her is what

1:19.7

keeps us from allowing her to live a lie.

1:22.2

I'm a regular listener to the Breakpoint podcast and heard numerous times that the research

1:27.3

supports that most children

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