Why the Transgender Conversation Is Changing

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last Friday, a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in middle, high school, and college sports passed in the West Virginia legislature. At least 20 different state legislatures have introduced transgender athlete bans in 2021. While South Dakota’s governor Kristi Noem vetoed a proposed ban, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi have signed these changes into law. Arkansas’ governor, Asa Hutchinson, did, however, veto legislation that would have banned gender confirming treatments or sex reassignment surgery for transgender youth under 18. That bill would have been the first in the country to ban this practice. Meanwhile, last Monday, GOP legislators in North Carolina introduced a bill that that would prevent doctors from performing sex reassignment surgery for transgender people under the age of 21. This flurry of state bills—a month ago LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign had counted more than 80—has once again provoked impassioned fighting, much of it centered around children. It’s led to questions of fairness in youth sports, if adolescent judgement and diagnosis should be trusted, and what role and what say parents should have in how their children express their gender. Mark Yarhouse is a pyschology professor at Wheaton College and the director of the Sexual and Gender Identity Institute. His books include Understanding Gender Dysphoria and most recently, Emerging Gender Identities. He joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen on this week’s episode of Quick to Listen. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Follow our guest on Twitter: Mark Yarhouse Go down Ted's music rabbit hole Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Yvonne Su and Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion. Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticsky.com.
0:27.6	Last Friday, a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in middle, high school, and college force passed in the West Virginia legislature.
0:30.6	At least 20 different state legislatures have introduced transgender athlete ban in 2021. While South Dakota's governor, Christy Noem, vetoed a proposed ban, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi have signed these changes into law.
0:47.3	Arkansas's governor, ESA Hutchinson, did, however, veto legislation that would have banned at gender-confirming treatments for sex reassignment surgery for transgender youth under 18.
0:59.0	That bill would have been the first in the country to ban this practice.
1:04.0	Meanwhile, last Monday, GOP legislatures in North Carolina introduced a bill that would prevent doctors from performing sex reassignment
1:11.4	surgery for transgender people under the age of 21.
1:16.2	This flurry of state bills, a month ago an LGBT advocacy group human rights campaign had counted
1:21.5	more than 80, has once again provoked impassioned fighting, much of it centered around children. It led to questions
1:28.5	of fairness in youth sports, if adolescent judgment and diagnosis should be trusted, and what role
1:34.2	and what saved parents should have in how their children express their gender. We wanted to look
1:39.3	at this issue with special attention to the family.
1:46.8	You are listening, click to listen.
1:51.5	We go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.
1:55.5	I'm Morgan Lee, global media manager at Christianity Today.
1:56.9	And I'm Ted Olson.
1:59.0	I'm editorial director at Christianity today.
2:11.0	All right, Ted.
2:16.1	Some weeks I feel like it's a little bit hard to say what we're going to be reacting to.
2:19.5	This week is kind of a lot.
2:21.9	So what is your gut check?
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