Tuesday, April 21, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the push for prisons to align with biological sexes, hospitals backing out of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ care for minors, the stall in the UK on enforcing single-sex spaces, and the right response to a polygamist man who comes to faith in Christ and asks, ‘What should I do now?’
Part I (00:14 – 09:04)
A Push for Prisons to Realign with Biological Sex: After Court Ruling, President Trump’s Gender Order May Lead to the Move of ‘Trans’ Inmates
- Federal Appeals Court Opens Door to Moving Trans Inmates Under Trump Gender Order by The New York Times (Mattathias Schwartz)
Hospitals Back Out of So-Called ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors: There’s A Lot More Going on Here Than the Cultural Elites Want to Admit
- Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth by NPR (Karen Brown)
LGBTQ Ideology vs. Reason: The Labour Government in the UK Stalls on Enforcing Single-Sex Spaces
- Tory councils ordered to enforce single-sex spaces by The Telegraph (Daniel Martin)
Christian Reasoning on the Line: What is the Right Response to a Polygamist Man Who Comes to Faith in Christ and Asks, ‘What Should I Do Now?’
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 21st, 2006. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | As you're looking at big changes in society, when we look at big issues that all of a sudden explode into public consciousness, |
| 0:21.5 | one of the things we need to note is that when a very significant issue arises, |
| 0:26.1 | something that has been working its way through the culture, unworking it back through the |
| 0:30.6 | culture also takes a great deal of time. |
| 0:33.3 | Another way of looking at it is that when you have a major shift in terms of the moral landscape, you have issue after issue, policy after policy, institution after institution that is affected. |
| 0:45.3 | Now, we're going to get to the prisons today, and it's on the transgender issue. |
| 0:49.9 | So, yesterday's edition of the New York Times had a major report with a headline, |
| 0:54.5 | Trans women in prisons could face moves soon. |
| 0:58.5 | Matthias Swartz is the reporter, and this is a big story because I think a lot of Americans thought that what's being discussed here had already happened. |
| 1:06.5 | So let's just remind ourselves how the transgender ideology worked its way through our culture |
| 1:12.0 | and did so at least for some time rather surreptitiously. People really weren't paying a lot of |
| 1:17.7 | attention. So while the LGBTQ movement was in formation, it originally was the homosexual |
| 1:24.3 | rights movement. It then became the gay rights movement. It then became the gay and |
| 1:29.0 | lesbian rights movement. Eventually, you had the initials show up. When it comes to bisexual as an |
| 1:35.2 | LGBTQ, that's never been a significant portion of the population. And politically, it's just basically |
| 1:41.3 | there because they want to put every aberrant category together. |
| 1:45.3 | It's the T that really was the game changer. |
| 1:47.9 | And that's because the fundamental reality is that gender is really, really clear when it comes to, say, gay male activity or female homosexual activity. |
| 2:04.2 | In either event, it only makes sense if you know who is a man and who is a woman, which many of the gay rights activists have been very keen to |
| 2:08.8 | point out. But having bought into the idea that there is no fixed morality, there are no objective |
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