It's Thursday, January 12, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Here's a question for you, and I quote,

is defying parents the only ethical alternative?

Now that's a headline story that appeared just this week in the Atlantic, this by author

Connor Friedersdorf, and it has to do with whether or not educators should see the child

as a legitimate transgender subject and thus parents as the problem or deferred parents

in raising their own children, especially or particularly at this case when it comes to

gender and sexual identity.

Well, you can imagine that this is a fraught issue, but I hope it's an issue that now has

the attention of Christian parents and all those who believe in the importance of the

Christian family and of Christian parenting.

This also needs to begin with an alert, and the alert is this, our society increasingly

sees conservative parents, Christian parents, as oppressors who must be overcome, not as

the legitimate authorities with the responsibility for the raising of our children.

We are in a very new and precarious, particularly difficult cultural context, one in which many

Christians simply are not aware of what's increasingly at stake.

What's at stake is whether or not Christian parents will actually have the right to raise

our children according to our own convictions, on something as basic as the transgender question.

That's the issue behind Connor Friedersdorf's article, and by the way, it will be troubling

enough if we were talking about a 14-year-old as the test case to begin this article, but

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