Why did the transgender movement catch us by surprise?

And how should we respond now?

That's the theme this week on the podcast, and with that goal in mind, we welcome Rob Smith

to the podcast.

Rob is a theologian who lectures in systematic theology and ethics at Sydney Missionary

and Bible College in Australia.

He also serves as an honorary assistant minister at St Andrews, Anglican Cathedral

in Sydney.

Rob approaches the topic of the transgender revolution as a biblical theologian, as a historian

of the movement as well, and as a pastor whose own family has been touched by gender dysphoria.

It hits rather close to home for him.

And we are all being hit by what he has called a transgender tsunami of gender fluidity

in Western culture.

Rob has completed extensive research of the history of how we got to now.

The transgender movement, as you will hear, did not appear out of nowhere.

There is a backstory.

And to tell it, here's Rob Smith.

Yes, well, thank you Tony, that's a marvelous question.

It certainly didn't come out of nowhere.

You can trace the roots right back really.

I think you can go back to Genesis 3 if you want to, but certainly in the modern period,

you can go back to enlightenment and then various developments subsequent to that.

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