Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach wck

and in today's episode we're asking the

question is it still lying if you use

science to do it this is based on a case

that the Supreme Court just heard which

is on looking at a law in Tennessee

which rest restricted gender

transitioning care so-called uh the

providing of medical treatment to change

a person's biological sex in accordance

with their perceived gender identity

Tennessee passed a law saying you can't

do that until someone is 18 that they

have to be an adult to make that

decision that law has been appealed and

now has been heard by the Supreme Court

what caught my eye though was an article

in the Atlantic called uh this the push

for puberty blockers got ahead of the

research that was an interesting title

to me when I read the article I found

two things were true the author uh a

person who would hold to a non-biblical

worldview who thinks that that you

should provide this care for minors was

acknowledging that maybe their side has

been saying some things that are not

true uh the second thing that occurred

to me is that uh they've been lying that

that's a fancy way of saying

that the side promoting gender

transitioning has actually been lying to

us so I want to take time to walk

through four lies that they've been

telling the first is that the medical

community agrees that gender

transitioning care is good for children

actually they don't in fact in Europe

countries that have been doing this

longer than the United States like

England or Norway or even the

Netherlands where a lot of this uh

Medical Care was pioneered are now

saying actually the opposite that

providing this treatment puberty

blockers hormone blockers that that

providing this treatment to Children is

actually damaging it's not helpful

they're beginning to walk back these

treatments because they're proving to

not be as helpful as they thought

another lie is that the data says it's

helpful that Studies have shown actually

Studies have not shown in the United

States where the more prominent Medical

Association still affirm gender

transitioning care what is true is that

they're not affirming that care based on

actual scientific studies they're

affirming the Care on ideological

grounds politically uh socially they

think it's best but even the author of

the Atlantic article who's inclined to

agree with them said actually the data

is pretty SC scarce and in fact the data

that does exist suggests the exact

opposite another lie is that denying

this care leads to a greater increase of

suicide there was one English Clinic who

used to provide puberty blockers and

hormone therapy to children who were

seeking to transition and they stopped

doing that just cold turkey and then

they did a study over the next six to

nine months looking at had that

increased the instances of suicide or

suicidal ideation among their patients

and what they found was that the

increase was Zero It produced no change

whatsoever because denying this care

when you explain why and walk through

the reasons is not actually as

psychologically harmful as we were told

and then of course the fourth lie is

that well we're only doing this in cases

when it's absolutely necessary the

article in the Atlantic points out that

some of the most prominent doctors in

the United States will prescribe these

treatments after one meeting with a

patient sometimes patients as young as

12 years old listen if you met with a

12-year-old in my home one time you

wouldn't even know what toppings they

like on their Pizza let alone what they

ought to do with their bodies my point

is this Sometimes When We Stand For

Truth as God reveals it in the

scriptures in this case that God makes

people male and female and while mental

and and emotional health is a real

Challenge and it's something we need to

help people with we don't help people

live by teaching teing them to live at

odds with their bodies when you stand

for that sometimes you can feel like the

bad guy sometimes maybe even hearing an

inner voice that says am I right am I

listening to science is this going to

hurt someone but that inner voice is

coming from a secular culture that is

lying that's because God's truth always

leads to human flourishing God knows how

our bodies work he knows how life works

when we share his wisdom we always bless

Jesus said the truth will set you free

listen it's not the Bible That's lying

it's the medical community standing for

truth is not just the call of God on our

lives it is the way we love our

neighbors so keep doing it hey thanks so

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