What should I do when my young son wants to become a girl?

On this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical

solutions to the problems that people face.

I'm Amy Evenson, the producer of Truth in Love, and today we're dealing with

What Should I Do When My Young Son Wants to Become a Girl?

Of course, this works the other way around with a little girl who wants to become a boy.

Today, we're aware of all kinds of news stories that tell the stories of parents who don't know what to do when their child wants to be the opposite sex.

One recent news article on CNN reports a young child named Rylan Whittington, who is a biological girl whose parents claim is transgender.

In Missouri, there is also a recent story of a teenage biological boy who is transgender

and wants to use the women's restroom.

So, Heath, I would love if you could describe for us a little bit about what is going on here.

What is this?

This is the problem of gender dysphoria,

which is a technical label that our culture gives when someone has a desire to be the opposite sex.

It's important to understand that in our cultural understanding, the problem of gender dysphoria is not intersex.

The problem of intersex is a biological difficulty that makes it hard or even impossible to identify whether a child is born as a boy or as a girl.

So gender dysphoria is not intersex.

It's also not homosexuality where someone has a sexual

desire for members of the same sex. Gender dysphoria is its own unique problem and it is a

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