TIL 502: First Do No Harm: A Biblical Approach to the Transgender Movement (feat. Dan Dionne)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
1. Transgender movement from the perspective of a medical doctor.
2. How do we as biblical counselors think about the transgender movement?
3. What are some of the ways we should talk to parents about this subject?
4. What do we say to those who are considering detransitioning?
5. How do we as the church who are trying to love people in this situation?
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| 0:00.0 | First, do no harm, a biblical approach to the transgender movement on this edition of |
| 0:05.5 | Truth and Love. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association |
| 0:17.4 | of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:24.2 | I am thrilled to have with us today, Dr. Dan Deann. |
| 0:28.3 | He went to medical school at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:32.5 | He and his wife Kelly live in Spokane, Washington, |
| 0:35.2 | where he has practiced primary care internal medicine for 34 years. |
| 0:39.3 | He became ACBC certified in 2016, and he enjoys teaching on medical subjects for us here at |
| 0:46.0 | ACBC. He serves as lay elder of biblical counseling at Faith Bible Church, and he had the honor |
| 0:53.1 | of contributing two chapters to the Christian |
| 0:55.0 | Counselor's Medical Desherence, the second edition. He and his wife Kelly have raised three |
| 0:59.7 | children who are all married and loving their nine delightful grandchildren, and in its |
| 1:04.9 | free time, he loves cycling, woodworking, fly fishing, music, reading, and travel. Brothers, good to have you with us today. |
| 1:12.6 | Thank you, Dale. |
| 1:13.1 | It's going to be back. |
| 1:14.0 | And we are diving into a very difficult topic, especially one that is hot and inflammatory |
| 1:19.7 | in the days in which we live. |
| 1:21.7 | And we want to look back at this in such a way to make sure that we're making biblical sense of the chaos |
| 1:29.5 | that's happening really in our world. I want you to talk as a medical doctor, which you are, |
| 1:35.6 | and to give us some sense of, you know, maybe for many of us who aren't in the medical world, |
| 1:41.8 | we hear about this transgender stuff, and it seems like it just |
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