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Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
The Christian Post
39 episodes
1 month ago
The transgender craze is growing and metastasizing in America and worldwide. Confusion is abounding. And while Western cultures celebrate and elevate gender chaos, the societal and cultural costs are quickly mounting. Join enterprising journalist Brandon Showalter of The Christian Post for a no-holds-barred exploration of the topic in “Generation Indoctrination,” a documentary-style podcast series aimed at exploring the roots and impact of the transgender debate. In this five-part investigative podcast series, Showalter masterfully takes listeners through heartbreaking stories, expert opinions, and bewildered academics’ experiences as these individuals push back on the narratives being perpetuated and targeted at young hearts and minds.
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The transgender craze is growing and metastasizing in America and worldwide. Confusion is abounding. And while Western cultures celebrate and elevate gender chaos, the societal and cultural costs are quickly mounting. Join enterprising journalist Brandon Showalter of The Christian Post for a no-holds-barred exploration of the topic in “Generation Indoctrination,” a documentary-style podcast series aimed at exploring the roots and impact of the transgender debate. In this five-part investigative podcast series, Showalter masterfully takes listeners through heartbreaking stories, expert opinions, and bewildered academics’ experiences as these individuals push back on the narratives being perpetuated and targeted at young hearts and minds.
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Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
MAJOR UPDATE: A Father’s Fight Against Trans Medicalization Could Change Everything

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For those who dare to contend with gender ideology—especially in the courts—the process is long and often brutal. In this Season 5 bonus episode of Generation Indoctrination, host Brandon Showalter revisits the ongoing legal battle of Ted Hudacko, a California father who has been fighting for years after his teenage son was subjected to gender medicalization, despite a family court order explicitly prohibiting any gender-identity related surgery.

After a federal judge dismissed his case last year, Hudacko is now appealing to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, with oral arguments scheduled for October 8, 2025, at 9:30 AM (Pacific). This case could set a precedent on whether government doctors can conduct experimental medical procedures on minors without proper consent.

In this gripping update, Hudacko explains his legal arguments, the doctrine of qualified immunity, the denial of judicial notice regarding historical medical atrocities, and the broader implications for parental rights and medical ethics in America.

Watch the live Ninth Circuit hearing: https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live-oral-arguments/

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1 month ago
15 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
From “Free Love” to Gender Chaos: Tracing the Road from the Sexual Revolution to Today

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In this season finale of Generation Indoctrination, we follow the thin red line from the 1960s “liberation” ethos to today’s gender turmoil—asking how a movement that promised freedom helped normalize puberty blockers, sterilizing surgeries, and a culture hostile to children’s innocence.

Canadian journalist Jonathon Van Maren maps the ideological pedigree; EPPC fellow Nathanael Blake explains why severing sex from meaning greased the slope; Ruth Institute founder Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse exposes the movement’s contradictions post-Obergefell; CHANGED co-founder Elizabeth Woning charts how L/G politics paved the on-ramp to T; and former gay porn actor turned Christian Joseph Sciambra offers a compassionate ground-level view from Pride to prayer. 

We also confront pornography’s role in rewiring desire, examine the tech and legal milestones that sped the shift, and ask whether a cultural reckoning—and a return to a Christian vision of the body—may finally be at hand.

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2 months ago
47 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
The Unheard Voices: Siblings Confront the Fallout of Gender Ideology

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When children embrace transgender identities, families fracture in ways few outsiders understand. While much attention has been given to parents and detransitioners, the voices of siblings have been largely ignored—until now.

In this powerful episode of Generation Indoctrination, Brandon Showalter sits down with brothers and sisters who have watched their siblings spiral into confusion, endure irreversible medical interventions, and drift from the families that love them. From Australia to the United States, these tragic issues know no bounds. On this episode, these siblings share raw, heartbreaking stories of grief, alienation, and resilience—revealing how gender ideology reshapes not only individual lives, but entire family systems.

This is a sobering look at the unseen casualties of a cultural movement, and the young people left to pick up the pieces when “gender affirmation” takes a devastating toll.

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2 months ago
28 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
Picking Up the Pieces: Life After the Gender Wars

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In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Generation Indoctrination, host Brandon Showalter sits down with those who’ve borne the brunt of the gender ideology fallout. From mothers who fought to protect their children, to trailblazing whistleblowers who were canceled and cast aside, these brave voices are now “picking up the pieces” in the aftermath of one of the most controversial cultural movements of our time.

You’ll hear from Miriam Ben-Shalom, a lesbian feminist veteran who became persona non grata in LGBTQ circles after questioning trans ideology; and Kaeley Triller Harms, a former YMCA communications director fired for refusing to compromise women’s safety. They were among the first to sound the alarm. You'll also meet Helen Spiegel Lee, a mother whose son was nearly medicalized—and who still lives with the scars of a long, bitter custody battle. And social worker Jennifer Bauwens, who warns of the medical establishment’s complicity and the deep roots that must be ripped out to stop this from happening again.

What happens after the storm clears? Who’s left standing—and how do they begin to heal and rebuild? This episode is raw, emotional, and essential listening for anyone seeking clarity, compassion, and truth in the wake of cultural confusion.

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3 months ago
30 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
The U.S. State That Fought Back in the Trans Battle — and Changed Absolutely Everything

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When the history of the gender ideology movement is written, Alabama will stand out as a state that refused to stay silent. In this powerful episode, we go behind the scenes of Alabama’s groundbreaking legal battle to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions. Host Brandon Showalter speaks with three key figures—Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Secretary of State Wes Allen, and plastic surgeon Dr. Patrick Lappert—who helped expose what they describe as a medical scandal of epic proportions. From resisting media backlash and political apathy to uncovering disturbing connections between transgender medical guidelines and fetish forums, Alabama’s fight wasn’t easy—but it may have changed everything.

The U.S. State That Fought Back in the Trans Battle — and Changed Absolutely Everything Listener discretion is advised.

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3 months ago
26 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
What Does Trump’s Win Mean for the Gender Wars? Season 5 Premiere

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The tide is turning.

In the wake of President Trump’s 2024 re-election, sweeping changes are taking shape across the federal government—especially in its approach to gender ideology. In this gripping season premiere of Generation Indoctrination, host Brandon Showalter examines how the political, legal, and cultural landscape has shifted dramatically in just a few short months.

From new executive orders redefining “woman” in biological terms to federal agencies taking aim at pediatric gender clinics, the fight over gender identity has entered an entirely new phase. But is it enough? And how far are we from real victory?

Brandon is joined by policy expert Dr. Jay Richards, political strategist Terry Schilling, and ADF attorney Kate Anderson to unpack what this moment means for parents, children, and the future of the country. They discuss the lawsuits stacking up, the cultural momentum building, and why this may be the last, best window for reform before battle fatigue sets in.

Is the gender industry beginning to collapse under its own weight? Or is the real fight just beginning?

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3 months ago
25 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
TRAILER: 'The Tide is Turning': Generation Indoctrination Season 5 Reveals Why 'Truth Still Matters'

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As we move through 2025, there’s no denying it—the political and cultural winds are shifting when it comes to gender ideology. For years, countless parents, doctors, courageous detransitioners, and their advocates have asked: Is the tide finally turning? Have we reached the tipping point? For a long time, it felt hopeless—but not anymore.

With the reelection of President Donald Trump in November 2024, the contrast could not be clearer. For the first time in years, federal agencies are no longer championing radical gender identity policies—they’re pushing back. On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order restoring the legal definition of sex to biological reality—not a self-identified notion of gender. Days later, he issued another order calling so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors what it truly is: chemical sterilization, surgical mutilation, and a stain on our nation’s history. He vowed to cut off federal funding for any institution carrying out these experimental procedures on children.

But let’s be clear—the damage already done is vast. Families have been torn apart. Young lives permanently altered. And the fallout? It’s only just beginning.

I’m Brandon Showalter, journalist with The Christian Post, and this is Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle. In Season 5, we’ll explore this new landscape—the political shifts, the ongoing cultural clashes, and the legal reckoning now underway. But we’ll also share the human stories—the families still fighting, the voices in the shadows that must never be silenced or forgotten.

We’ll take you inside state legislatures, clinical settings, courtrooms, and even into the office of the Attorney General of Alabama, a state that played a pivotal role in bringing about this national shift.

The tide is turning. Truth still matters. And the battle for reality—and for the next generation—is far from over.

Generation Indoctrination, Season 5—coming soon.

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4 months ago
2 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
BONUS EPISODE: A Father Fights Back, Part II

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The grip that gender ideology has on the law is one of the most consequential ways in which it governs our affairs. Indeed, when obvious lies about the basic facts of our humanity rule the day, chaos ensues. And in the family courts, that ruthlessness is accentuated in light of the way it disrupts and severs our most intimate relationships. 

In the bonus episode for season 3 of this podcast series, we profiled Ted Hudacko, a dad whose ordeal is a case study as to how gender ideology takes over one’s life. To briefly recap, in violation of a court order which required that he be notified and give consent to any gender identity-related surgery, doctors at a major gender center at the University of California - San Franscisco carried out so-called "gender-affirming care," performing a surgical procedure that inserted a hormone-blocking device in his then-minor son’s arm. They also started his son on a course of cross-sex hormones. In light of this violation, Hudacko took legal action both in a family court complaint and in a federal lawsuit. 

When gender ideology pervades the law, the normal rules do not seem to apply., It appears that, as Hudacko’s case has illustrated, they seem to make it up as they go along. And when there is a messy divorce and questions of custody? These bitter, protracted fights never seem to end. 

In the bonus episode of season 4, we are revisiting this legal jungle, full of all kinds of twists and turns.

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11 months ago
33 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
SEASON 4 FINALE: Is Transgenderism the On-Ramp to Transhumanism?

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The mere mention of the word “transhumanism” evokes for many people a mental picture of a tin-foil hat. Are there people who truly think that we can become something other than homo sapiens? Can we somehow self-identify outside of our species by way of technology?

And, even if we could, should we?

Surely, this is utterly preposterous, you might say. This delusion will never become mainstream. But isn’t that exactly what many said about transgenderism around a decade ago?

Major figures — some of whom have billions of dollars at their disposal — who are behind pushing transgenderism around the world are also driving many forms of body dissociation for profit, reengineering humanity itself in pursuit of such things as living forever in cyberspace.

In a way, gender ideology, the push to obliterate the material reality of sex, is itself a form of transhumanism.  In this season finale, we speak with three individuals who argue that we should not overlook the unmistakable connection between the vain attempt to transcend our sex (transgenderism) and transcend our personhood (transhumanism) – and warn that one is the onramp to the other.

What might the future hold if the emerging cult of transhumanism is left unchecked? Listen in to find out more.

Warning: Adult language and subject matter. Please be advised. 

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11 months ago
34 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
The Prescient Women Who Foresaw the Madness of Gender Ideology

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A recurring observation many have made about the cultural saturation in gender ideology is how quickly it has happened, seemingly out of nowhere. Indeed, how did this ideology take over so many major institutions so suddenly? The truth, however, is that it has been brewing for decades but few discerned what was developing.

In this episode, we speak with some prescient voices on the scene — three women who foresaw the wave of confusion and destructive chaos. Gender ideology depends upon severe censorship, massive money to fund propaganda through media, and the deliberate erasure of biologically rooted natural boundaries – all of which carry significant medical implications.

How were these three prophetic ladies – an investigative journalist, an intelligence analyst and author, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist – able to warn the public about the coming dangers before most people had the slightest clue about the morass that is transgenderism? Tune in to find out more.

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1 year ago
30 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
Voices From the Shadows: Parents Secretly Resisting Gender Ideology and Fighting For Their Kids

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What is it like to watch your children become mired in gender confusion while you're left with no options to help them? What is it like when all of the institutions you thought you could rely on are ideologically captured — and, if you disagree, they’ll turn against you?

And what about when even members of your own family turn against you and castigate you for asking questions about your child’s claim that they are “transgender?"

The parents we speak to in this episode have faced all of this, and even after years of struggle are forced to resist gender ideology strategically and largely in secret. They do activism for state legislation and take phone calls from advocates from their closets. They are part of online support groups for other parents. They avoid these touchy but extremely painful topics at family gatherings even though it’s always simmering beneath the surface.

These moms and dads are often estranged from their trans-identifying kids. Their intense anguish is protracted and otherworldly. Worst of all, it’s still mostly hidden from the general public. We’re using fake names for the five parents (four moms and one dad) in today's episode and will only refer to the general region of the country where they live in order to protect their identities given the repercussions they continue to deal with as they fight for their children from the shadows.

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1 year ago
42 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
What’s Being Done to Help Families Harmed, Obliterated By Gender Ideology?

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An under-discussed aspect of the cultural battle over gender ideology is its profound impact on families. Ask any parent who has watched in terror as their son or daughter barreled down the path of experimental drugs and surgery in search of a physical impossibility – becoming the opposite sex – and they’ll tell you that transgender ideology did not just damage their children’s health and bodies, but that it also ruptured relationships and obliterated family ties. 


Who is helping these distraught moms and dads? And what can be done to assist parents as they navigate this struggle both before and after gender ideology takes root in their kids’ minds?


In this episode, we speak with the mom of trans-identified child who went public with this struggle and whose story was profiled in a poignant documentary film called “Dead Name,” an attorney who won a significant parental rights case in Wisconsin against a school system that was socially transitioning children behind their parents’ backs, and a licensed clinical social worker helping detransitioners and their families pick up the pieces of their broken relationships.


Plus, we’ll talk with the mom of a formerly trans-identified daughter who conducted an astonishing deep-dive investigation of Kaiser in California, discovering just how easy it was to identify as something other than one’s sex and then acquire cross-sex hormones and surgery. To view the “Dead Name” documentary film highlighted in this installment, you may do so at www.deadnamedocumentary.com.


WARNING: Adult themes and discussions are present in this series. This is not appropriate for children. 


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1 year ago
34 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
SEASON 4 PREMIERE: What's being done to help detransitioners?

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In the last few years, people who have become known by the term “detransitioners” have been testifying in public hearings and to media outlets about how their health was ruined and their bodies irreparably damaged by this experimental gender medicalization and surgery. As their heartbreaking stories become more widely known and as the public continues to awaken to the enormous medical scandal that is so-called 'gender-affirming care' this inaugural episode of season 4 of this podcast series explores how action-oriented people of all professional stripes in red, blue, and purple states are taking action to help this emerging group of people. 

We'll speak to lawmakers in Oregon, Idaho, and a public policy advocate in Arizona. We'll speak to a therapist from California who now lives on the East Coast; a mom-turned-activist from Florida who is advocating with the new group Do No Harm; and a man who has taken to the streets of New Hampshire wearing sandwich boards to force the issue with the general public, bypassing the media to speak with anyone who will listen. 

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1 year ago
32 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
Transhumanism, Spiritual Wickedness and Diabolical Horror: The 'Radical Evil' We'll Expose in Season 4 (PREVIEW)

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For decades, the roots of gender ideology were seemingly confined to esoteric areas of study in niche academic departments. Yet this radical ideology soon stealthily began taking the world by storm until it reached a social eruption over the past decade -- one that has destroyed families and threatened the very fabric of society. 

Today, the devastating havoc that transgenderism has wrought on countless children, teenagers, young adults, families, and on society at large is no longer hidden, and a reckoning is underway both at home and abroad. On today's preview episode, host Brandon Showalter explains the "radical evil" you'll experience on season four of "Generation Indoctrination."

New episodes begin September 20, 2024.

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1 year ago
21 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
SEASON 4 TRAILER: Is Transgenderism the On-Ramp to Something Even More Bizarre and Nefarious?

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For decades, the roots of gender ideology were seemingly confined to esoteric areas of study in niche academic departments. Yet this radical ideology soon stealthily began taking the world by storm until it reached a social eruption over the past decade -- one that has destroyed families and threatened the very fabric of society. 

Today, the devastating havoc that transgenderism has wrought on countless children, teenagers, young adults, families, and on society at large is no longer hidden, and a reckoning is underway both at home and abroad.

But what can be done? What can average citizens who see what’s at stake do to address this effectively? In this fourth season of "Generation Indoctrination" — which premieres September 20 — we’re focusing on those action-oriented people who decided that, although they never imagined this being a part of their lives, they must resist this destructive ideology. 

We’ll speak to those working in public policy, in red, blue, and purple states. We’ll engage those advocating for detransitioners, the victims of the mass medical experiment known as “gender-affirming care.” And we’ll talk to those who are helping shattered families and devastated moms and dads, some of whom are still forced to resist from the shadows and whose lives have been torn apart. These parents will tell you they are only now starting to be heard. 

And while there has been growing resistance and an emergence of public advocacy on these issues, it’s also worth revisiting the history. As it turns out, there were voices on the scene who foresaw and predicted the rise of this ideology before anyone was paying attention. 

And we’ll also engage what lies ahead. Are there other ideological developments presently brewing in the shadows that are related to the current morass? Is transgenderism the on-ramp to something even more bizarre and nefarious? Some say yes. 

We’ll explore all these themes and more in this season of "Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle." 

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1 year ago
2 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
As Trump, Biden Battle Heats Up, How Will Evangelicals Shape the Election? New Podcast Preview

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2024 is being called the biggest election year in history — and with good reason. Seven of the world’s ten most populous countries, including the United States, will hold national elections this year. As more people than ever before are expected to vote in 2024, what exactly does it mean to be a “Christian voter” in America today? Is it merely a Christian who votes? Or something far more nuanced?

That’s the question at the forefront of The Christian Post podcast series and upcoming live event, "Politics In the Pews." Through conversations with a variety of Evangelical voices from across the political spectrum, "Politics In the Pews" looks at the history and influence of Evangelicalism in American politics, where churches and Christian leaders stand on the presumed Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump, and how “Christian nationalism” could sway independent voters.

Topics will cover the rise and fall of the “Religious Right,” the “Trump factor,” Christian nationalism, the pros and cons of church ballot collection efforts, how Hispanic Evangelical leaders are engaging their congregations, and a panel of leading Christian voices on the state of religious liberty in America in 2024.

On today's preview, "Politics In the Pews" host Ian Giatti joins Billy Hallowell to preview the podcast series, which premieres July 12. Be sure to subscribe to the show TODAY so you can start listening when the first episode releases. Listen here:

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1 year ago
14 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
A Father Fights Back: How the Family Courts Facilitated The Sterilization Of His Gender-Confused Minor Son

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When family courts and the legal system are captured by gender ideology, moms and dads who have reservations about medicalizing their gender-confused children with experimental drugs and surgeries have almost no recourse, particularly when there is a contentious divorce and a custody dispute between the parents. This is especially the case in the “trans sanctuary state” of California.

Ted Hudacko knows this struggle all too well. He hasn’t seen one of his sons in years after California Superior Court judge Joni Hiramoto removed this San Francisco Bay Area dad’s custody after he expressed hesitancy that his son was transgender. In violation of the court order, clinicians and activists at the University of California - San Francisco Child and Adolescent Gender Center facilitated the surgical implantation of a hormone-blocking device in his son’s arm. They also started him on a course of cross-sex hormones. As a result of these medical interventions, Hudacko’s son is now almost certainly sterile. 

Hudacko’s case is a remarkable encapsulation of several dimensions of the gender ideology issues we have explored in the third season of “Generation Indoctrination.” In this bonus episode, we speak with him about his ongoing efforts to fight back against the system along with his attorney, Tracy Henderson. Hudacko is currently taking action in family court with contempt complaints against those who harmed his son and also a federal lawsuit. 

We will also briefly hear from Dr. Sallie Baxendale, a neuropsychologist from England who has been raising the alarm about the impact of puberty-blocking drugs on brain development. Her presentation at the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine’s conference in October 2023 can be viewed in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ZnRKqqByg&t=3s.

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1 year ago
42 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
SEASON FINALE: How Should the Church Respond to Gender Ideology?

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The Christian Post has always been unequivocal about where we, as a publication, stand on the issue of gender ideology. We believe that it is not only fundamentally at odds with historic, biblically orthodox Christian faith, but that it has also unleashed some of the worst medical atrocities and human rights violations the world has ever seen. We believe that so-called “gender-affirming care” is horrific, unmitigated child abuse, and that lying about the material reality of sex endangers vulnerable populations such as incarcerated women, who are now forced to share prison quarters with violent males as a result of such trans-friendly policies. 

It is, as CP executive editor Richard Land has said numerous times, “the epitome of self-idolatry, the ultimate attempt to become one’s own god.”

And yet how should the church respond to those who are struggling? How do we address the nefarious, ideological push that is in nearly all of our cultural institutions, while also offering compassionate pastoral care for those suffering from gender confusion? How should churches approach these matters with uncompromised boldness, biblical wisdom, and the grace of Jesus Christ? 

Weighing in on these questions in the final episode of "Generation Indoctrination" are two theologians, a Christian counselor, and a man who works to equip the rising generation in a biblical worldview and is also the co-author (with “Generation Indoctrination” host Brandon Showalter) of the e-book “Exposing the Gender Lie: How To Protect Children and Teens from the Transgender Industry’s False Ideology.”

We will grapple with these issues and much more in the finale of season 3 of "Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle."

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1 year ago
42 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
In Their Own Words: Detransitioners, Advocates Decry Deceptions of 'Gender-Affirming Care'

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More than anyone else, those who have personally experienced the experimental medical procedures involved in so-called “gender-affirming care” are keenly aware of the lies of trans ideology. The group of people called “detransitioners” have taken hormones and undergone surgeries to alter their bodies to appear more like the opposite sex have learned in the hardest way possible that no one has ever been or ever will be “born in the wrong body.” 

 

The regret such detrans individuals face is so profound that it has motivated some of them to testify in state legislatures in support of bills and policies prohibiting such practices of administering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries on minors. They are also contributing to documentary films and books. Yet others have even filed medical negligence lawsuits against the doctors and medical institutions that harmed them and their cases are presently working through the courts. Advocacy on behalf of such people is emerging on several fronts as their stories are being heard more widely, in no small part due to their public testimonies before government committees and in legislative hearings. 

 

In this fourth episode of season 3, we engage a young detrans man and a young detrans woman who are among this group who are speaking out about how they were harmed, an attorney who has filed lawsuits on behalf of a few detrans women, and an author and filmmaker who is an expert in bioethics. The author and filmmaker has written an upcoming book featuring personal stories of both male and female detransitioners, the history behind the push to make transgenderism mainstream, and how gender ideology has eroded biomedical ethics. She is also about to release her third film on the subject. 

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1 year ago
33 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
Parental Resistance: Moms and Dads Fight for Their Gender-Confused Kids

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The parents of children who have suddenly started identifying as “transgender” or other designations like “nonbinary” or “genderqueer” have suffered more than most people as a result of the invasion of gender ideology. This is especially the case in the medical arena as young people are now enticed down a path of experimental medicalization entailing risky procedures such as the use of cross-sex hormones and body-altering surgeries to appear more as the opposite sex. With this medicalization, parental rights are eroding as the age of consent laws for these medical practices have been lowered. 

 

In the third installment of season 3 of this podcast series, we’ll speak to a mom who managed to pull her daughter back from the proverbial ledge after her young daughter was swept up into the gender identity social contagion, another mom in agony whose daughter has gone as far as possible medically, and a dad who dared to push back against the medical establishment when his cancer-stricken son became convinced he was the other sex. This father was among those profiled in “Dead Name” an indie documentary film about the struggles parents face; the movie also features “Generation Indoctrination" host Brandon Showalter.

 

We also speak to Andrew Bailey, the current Attorney General of Missouri who, despite not having any of his kids mired in the trans craze is himself a concerned parent and has been fighting against the gender clinics in the Show Me State after a whistleblower came forward with sworn testimony about how children were being hurt and parents undermined at a transgender clinic in St. Louis. 

 

The grief and suffering of these moms and dads has been neglected in the mainstream press — but their voices must be heard. 

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1 year ago
32 minutes

Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle
The transgender craze is growing and metastasizing in America and worldwide. Confusion is abounding. And while Western cultures celebrate and elevate gender chaos, the societal and cultural costs are quickly mounting. Join enterprising journalist Brandon Showalter of The Christian Post for a no-holds-barred exploration of the topic in “Generation Indoctrination,” a documentary-style podcast series aimed at exploring the roots and impact of the transgender debate. In this five-part investigative podcast series, Showalter masterfully takes listeners through heartbreaking stories, expert opinions, and bewildered academics’ experiences as these individuals push back on the narratives being perpetuated and targeted at young hearts and minds.