Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

But the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

The evidence that so-called gender-affirming care actually harms young people has been widely

available for years. However, it's been also widely suppressed by policy makers,

medical professionals, and media outlets.

That is now changing, largely because the stories of those who were harmed by these dangerous ideas are now being told.

At the most recent Lighthouse Voices event, a series of lectures co-hosted by a focus on the family and the Colson Center,

Laura Perry Smalt told her story.

After eight years of attempting to live as a male, Laura came to faith in Jesus Christ,

first as her Savior, and then, in a very real sense, as her Maker.

Her message is a powerful testimony to both the dangerous lies of the transgender movement,

especially for young people, and to the potential for reconciliation

with both God and self. For example, Laura highlighted the role that technology plays and

contributing to the widespread confusion about identity. Here's Laura.

They have grown up on nothing but technology and they're not seeing realness in the church.

And they're going on YouTube and Tik Talk and hearing how broken these lives are.

But those people are giving them a false salvation and they're saying,

it's because it was transgender that's the reason

I was so broken but now I'm not broken because I've embraced my authentic self.

Laura also noted how especially online kids are being overly sexualized today, especially those times

when they're most vulnerable.

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