Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of theology in the realm. My guest today is my very good friend Dr Paul Eddie, who is a professor of biblical theological studies at Bethel University. He's also part of the executive team at Woodland Hills Church alongside his good friend Greg Boyd.

Paul is, as I'll say in this

guy, he is one of if not the best researcher I've ever met.

This guy absolutely, his candy is sitting behind a desk with a stack of books and scholarly articles and just spending all day researching and he's so so fair and thorough with his in his research whatever he wants whatever he researches he's just he's incredibly

exhaustive so several years ago we at the center for face sexuality and gender we

commissioned that Paul to be kind of a part-time research

associate and we gave him a couple projects to research and the one that we're

going to talk about in this podcast is a research project that he published titled

Rethinking Transition on the History, Experience, and Current Research regarding gender transition, transition, regret, and D transition. current research

paper regarding gender transition, transition,

that's a very long subtitle.

This is a 250 page research paper with over a thousand footnotes, typical Paul Eddie, on a very controversial

topic, the phenomenon of transition regret. And that's what we talk about in this podcast we

basically go through what he found in this massive study and yeah just to give you a warning up front this you know everything in this

topic is very controversial we understand that we try to be thorough and

fair and gracious with how we're even talking about something that's

very very personal and very very significant very debated so we also just to give you

a heads up to we are not this whole conversation was not discussing discussing the ethics of transitioning we don't raise that question we've talked about this. I've written on it in my book

embodied. For this episode all we are focusing on is what do the studies show? There's

been several studies done on the percentage of

transition regret that exists among people who identify or identified as trans at one point.

So that's our focus, is just looking at the studies.

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