Transgender Resources

Addressing Gender Identity With Honesty and Compassion
Laura Perry Smalts and pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker offer compelling evidence for the harmful physical and psychological effects of gender transitions. They speak compassionately about the issues surrounding gender confusion, offering practical insights and hope for people who are struggling with gender dysphoria.

Helping Kids Stand Firm While Navigating the Ever-Changing Landscape of Transgenderism
There is a crucial shift in youth culture, and Christian teens need to understand transgenderism as well as how to respond in love and truth.

Help! I Don’t Know How To Answer My Child’s LGBT Questions – YouTube
It’s important to talk with your kids about modeling how Jesus interacted with people like the woman at the well in John chapter 4. You can tell your children not to insult others, but truly see them and talk to them with compassion.

Resources for Transgenderism and Gender Confusion
While we hold to biblical truth about male and female differences, we also reach out with biblical redemption and healing. This referral list is a starting point for individuals, families and churches affected by transgenderism.

Talking to Your Children About Transgender Issues
When this topic comes up in your home, be ready to have an informed conversation that educates your children with a calm, caring and truth-filled response.

‘Trading My Sorrows’ – A Story of Healing from Transgenderism
Walt Heyer struggled for years with the desire to dress in woman’s clothes and to be a woman. Read the heartening article about God’s grace, healing and forgiveness in his life.

Answering Parents’ Questions on Gender Confusion in Children
Glenn Stanton, Director of Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, answers basic questions about parenting and gender-confusion in children. In addition to this brief article, his book gives guidance for parents helping their children develop into Secure Daughters and Confident Sons. Likewise, this audio from our broadcast offers helpful information for parents who wish to nurture a healthy gender identity in their children.

Reinforce Your Child’s Sexual Identity
Parents can seize everyday opportunities to affirm their child with affection and for who God made them.

Reliable Resources for Teaching Children About Marriage, Sexuality and Homosexuality
The resources shown here will give guidance and equip parents as they teach children about healthy sexuality, marriage and God’s design for the body.

Responding to the Transgender Issue – Parent Resource Guide
This guide is the product of a unique collaboration between organizations with very diverse political opinions and one common concern: The negative consequences of treating bodily sex as irrelevant. The resource provides input for families faced with gender activism in public schools as well as descriptions and cautionary information concerning “gender affirmative” treatment model that facilitates a child’s “transition.”

A Biblical Perspective on Transgender Identity: A Primer for Parents and Strugglers
This resource gives a Biblical perspective on how to handle the challenges those struggling with embracing their God-given sexuality and gender face as well as the challenges parents are facing raising children in an over-sexualized society.

Fifty years ago, no one would’ve thought that the reality of humanity’s division into two sexes — male and female — would be questioned, much less under attack in our nation’s policies. Yet that’s the world we now live in. These articles and resources help you navigate this issue and take action in support of freedoms, parental rights, privacy and safety.

Expert in ‘Transitioning’ Children Admits ‘We Were Wrong’ About Puberty Blockers
Dr. Susan Bradley, once the Head of the Division of Child Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, one of the foremost researchers who prescribed puberty blockers to “pause adolescence,” speaks out about the negative and long-term consequences of this treatment.

Transgenderism: Blurring the Lines
This article gives a broad overview of the issue, including:

• Examples of gender identity disorder affecting the culture,
• Possible influencing factors for children to believe they are the opposite sex,
• Treatment of gender identity disorder in children,
• The roots of the transgender activist movement and an explanation of its ideology, and,
•  A basic understanding of God’s design for two sexes.

Desensitizing Society on Transgenderism
This short article gives numerous examples of the transgender movement’s impact on our culture, classrooms and legislation.

Public Restrooms – Your Privacy and Safety
This series includes the following articles for concerned families:

• Keeping Your Family Safe in Public Restrooms
• What Is ‘Gender Identity’?
• Who is Included in the ‘Transgender Umbrella?’
• Do ‘Gender Identity’ Laws Affect Me and My Family?
• How Did We Get To This Gender-Confused Place?

Why This School is OK with a Man Exposing Himself to Young Girls
Jim Daly’s blog tells the story of a girls swim team using the women’s locker room at a local college. The college could not stop a naked man, who believes he’s a woman, from also using the facilities.

Gender-Confusing Messages in Schools
This downloadable resource provides invaluable advice for parents whose children are exposed to the transgender agenda in education.

The Impact of Adding LGBT to Nondiscrimination Laws
What happens when new rights are created based on a person’s “gender identity” and “gender expression”? This article gives clear examples of freedoms threatened and innocence lost.

Doctors speak out: Lupron and the ‘Diabolical’ push to sterilize, gender-transition confused kids
This article speaks about a push to put children confused about their bodies on puberty suppressants and hormone blockers like Lupron to change their physical sex. While referenced here, this writing is not completely endorsed by Focus on the family. The information may be useful to our readers for purposes of understanding this issue and furthering personal research.

Minnesota Mom on the Frontlines for Parental Rights and Protecting Children
We think you’ll be encouraged by hearing some of Emily Zinos’ story and about this new resource for parents concerned about transgender activism in schools.

Hospitals and Doctors “Transition” Hundreds of Children with Drugs, Hormones and Surgery
Rather than helping children embrace their bodily sex – male or female, many hospitals, doctors and therapists have shifted toward helping children “transition” to living as the opposite sex. In the process, they’re placing these children on a fast-moving conveyor belt toward dangerous and life-altering drugs, hormones and surgeries.

A Singularly Christian View of the Transgender Problem
Take a deeper look into what the Transgender movement has become, what it is redefining, and what it means for Christians.

Preventing Parents from Guiding a Gender-Confused Children is a Recipe for Disaster
It seems each day brings with it headlines and highlights of renewed attacks on the family, but especially on the autonomy and authority of moms and dads to nurture and raise their children according to their deeply held convictions and beliefs.

Parenting – Q&A’s

• Concerns About A Boy Developing Healthy Masculine Traits
• Concerned about Young Son’s Masculinity
• Dealing with Transgender Issues in Elementary Schools
• Discussing Transgender Issues with Teens
• Gentle and Sensitive Boy
• Helping a Teen Boy Become a Man
• Helping a Teen Girl Become a Woman
• How Gender Distinctions Affect Parenting
• How to Find Counseling Support for Teen With Sexual Identity Issues
  
• Opposite-Sex Parent-Child Relationships
• Parent Concerned about Teen’s Future Sexual Identity
• Parent Concerned about Tomboyish Tendencies in Daughter
• Parents Raising A Boy as A Girl
• Parents Responding to Child Who Wants to Be the Opposite Sex
• Parents Responding to Teen Who Wants to Be the Opposite Sex
• Same-Sex Socialization and Toddlers
• Support for Parent Whose Adult Child Identifies as Transgender
• Talking to Kids About Sexual Identity
• Three-Year-Old Boy Plays Dress-Up With Sisters
• Grandparents Threatened To Either Support Transgender Grandchild or Be Cut Off

Identity – Q&A’s

• Feminine “Preferences” and Male Sexual Identity
• Questioning one’s own sexual identity
• Struggling with Temptations and Identity
• Teenager Identifies as Transgender

God’s Design – Q&A’s

• Casting God’s Vision for Sex and Sexuality
• God and Man as Male and Female: Implications for Gender Identity
• Key Differences Between Male and Female
• Scientific Support for Gender Distinctions

Relating to others on LGBT issues – Q&A’s

• Adult Child Living at Home
• Boundaries With Adult Children
• Dealing with Transgender Issues in Elementary Schools
• Family Gatherings & Interactions
• How To Interact with an LGBT Friend
• How to Tell Others of Your Child’s Struggle
• Not Rejecting Others Who Differ
• Support for Parents’ Emotions
• Responding to a “Gay Christian” in the Family
• Responding to a Transgender Family Member

*Referrals to other organizations are for research purposes and are not a blanket endorsement of all materials or positions held by these outside sources

• The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl R. Trueman
• Elephants Are Not Birds – by Brave Books and Ashley St. Claire. Book to help children understand how God has created only two genders.
• Gender Resource Guide – produced by a coalition of organizations
• Help Not Harm: A National Child Safety Campaign
  • Announcement
  • Campaign Page
• Family Policy Alliance
  • Family Policy Webinar: The Truth About Transition
• American College of Pediatricians on Gender Confusion
• American College of Pediatricians pamphlet
• Christian Medical and Dental Association
  • Related Articles from Christian Medical and Dental Association
    • AJP Issues Correction: No Mental Health Gain from Gender-Affirming Surgery
    • More Articles
• Find a Therapist for My Child
• Find a Therapist for Myself
  • American College of Pediatrics
• Sex Change Regret
• Related articles in Public Discourse – A Journal of the Witherspoon Institute

• Do No Harm
• ReStory Ministries
• Restored Hope Network
• Sex Change Regret
• Partners for Ethical Care
• Advocates Protecting Children