Alllie Beth Stuckey is a terrific interviewer. See the program description below.
Today we're talking with Sophia Galvin, founder of Rainbow Redemption Project and detransitioner, who is sharing her fascinating story of transitioning, detransitioning, and ultimately finding salvation through Christ. We discuss her initital feelings of gender dysphoria as a teen and what led her to feel the need to "transition" into a man – a transition that came with life-altering drugs and surgery. Then we discuss her realization that she was actually a woman and her process of de-transitioning. Sophia shares her journey of becoming a Christian and finding her true, permanent identity in Christ. Then, we discuss how believers should approach the topic of transgender ideology and pronouns in a truth-centered way.
** Other interviews Allie Beth has done on this subject to date:
Ep 271 | Investigating the New Generations of Transgender Girls | Guest: Abigail Shrier https://apple.co/3wtRDme
Ep 417 | The Self & The Sexual Revolution | Guest: Dr. Carl Trueman https://apple.co/3QS5XNR
Ep 444 | The Untold Stories of 'Gender Transition' | Guest: Brandon Showalter https://apple.co/3TdYkTt
Ep 636 | Guest: Genevieve Gluck https://apple.co/3wtyS2q
** While we are on the subject of gender transitioning, Rod Dreher links to "an anonymous progressive teacher who nevertheless is appalled by the gender radicalism taking over the schools."
Here are some solid figures: I had six classes last year, and I didn’t have a single one without multiple students who identified as transgender. Some classes had more than others, but the absolutely lowest number was two in a 26-person class. Most of these students were just non-binary, but I had least five in the midst of actual medical transition, along with quite a few more who spent their days planning how to get the process started. I’d estimate that 70% or so of these students are female, and talk about breast binding and “top surgery” are common conversation topics at lunch time. It’s hard to not step in when you hear an obviously depressed, dysfunctional teenage girl working out how she can convince her parents to approve a double mastectomy, but what can you do? If I said anything at all, I’d be fired in a heartbeat.
These children’s identities, as you might expect, are wildly unstable; I can count a total of nineteen pronoun changes requested by twelve students over just the last semester, along with six for changing names. It’s relatively common for students to transition, detransition, and transition again, especially in response to the identity shifts in their classmates. At one point, a single student’s decision to go with they/them pronouns set off a chain reaction that resulted in four more of her friends doing the same. It’s gotten so ridiculous that a neighboring teacher recommended weekly pronoun checks, just to avoid the outrage that inevitably comes with every “misgendering.”
Dreher writes:
The whole thing is jaw-dropping. Keep in mind too that many, many schools, both public and private, have adopted formal policies forbidding teachers and school personnel from telling parents that their minor children present as trans at school, without permission of these kids. Last week, a federal judge in Maryland upheld such policies in a local school district. As I wrote about the case, the State is now inserting itself between children and families for ideological reasons -- which is exactly what the Soviet regime did!
** Update: 8/30/22 - I highly recommend listening to (or reading) this Epoch Times' audio/article of a 15 year old girl who agreed to let a "gender-affirming" surgeon remove her healthu breasts, a decision she now deeply regrets. "Ex-Transgender Teen Recounts 'Horrifying" Experience of Transition, Surgery.