{"id":46541,"date":"2025-09-19T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=46541"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:32:32","slug":"generation-indoctrination-tries-to-explain-the-current-gender-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/09\/generation-indoctrination-tries-to-explain-the-current-gender-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Generation Indoctrination&#8217; Tries to Explain the Current Gender Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46544\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/Gender-Confusion_credit-Adobe-Stock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46544\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/Gender-Confusion_credit-Adobe-Stock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the aftermath of a school shooting at a Minnesota Catholic school by a shooter professing gender ideology and the murder of Christian advocate and activist Charlie Kirk by a man with possible links to transgender ideology, the focus on the growing gender identity crisis within the youth seems timelier than ever. One podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/podcast\/channel\/generation-indoctrination-inside-the-transgender-battle\">Generation Indoctrination<\/a>,\u201d with the <em>Christian Post\u2019s <\/em>Brandon Showalter seeks to find answers. The show currently has 35 episodes and describes its premise as \u201ca documentary-style podcast series aimed at exploring the roots and impact of the transgender debate.\u201d \u201cThe 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,\u201d the show description notes.<\/p>\n<p>In one episode, Showalter reflected some of the early signs of gender ideology\u2019s takeover and shared stories of families shattered by the advice of medical professionals. Showalter recalled a panel he attended for the Heritage Foundation in 2017, during his early days as a journalist. The panel, called \u201cBiology is Not Bigotry,\u201d featured such speakers as Miriam Ben-Shalom, a Jewish lesbian activist, who quickly came under fire for questioning transgender-promoting policies online. \u201cI didn\u2019t know, but I sure got educated really quickly. I really don\u2019t give a darn what people think of me, if my legacy depends on having to affirm a mental illness,\u201d she said of her decision to speak out. The panel also featured parents who struggled to gain medical decision-making power over their children who had expressed gender confusion.<\/p>\n<p>In another episode, Showalter\u2019s guest, Canadian journalist Jonathon Van Maren, traced the beginnings of gender ideology to the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. \u201cThe sexual revolution was a revolution. It was the tearing down of all boundaries surrounding what is sex, what is procreation, what is family. It was, to a degree, inevitable that eventually they would begin to redefine the very concept of self,\u201d said Van Maren. Nathanael Blake, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said that while the Sexual Revolution billed itself as a time of increasing freedom, it really only brought on more bondage. \u201cThe Sexual Revolution promised that if we pursued pleasure and disregarded commitments and obligations, we would be freer, more authentic and happy. But instead, if you say there\u2019s no meaning to sex other than what you feel about it, that necessarily means male and female don\u2019t matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The episode also featured former members of the LGBTQ+ community, who described the relationship between young people and the LGBTQ+ community as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/trauma-bonding-5207136\">trauma bonding<\/a>,\u201d a term which describes \u201cthe attachment an abused person feels for their abuser.\u201d Blake warned that the slide into gender ideology could lead into some previously unthinkable sexual orientations being accepted. \u201cWe could certainly see a push towards pedophilia,\u201d he warned. \u201cI hope we\u2019ve reached a point where this evil of transgenderism will recede \u2026 but we need to be faithful, and then we need to trust and hope that God will deliver us from evil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of a school shooting at a Minnesota Catholic school by a shooter professing gender ideology and the murder of Christian advocate and activist Charlie Kirk by a man with possible links to transgender ideology, the focus on the growing gender identity crisis within the youth seems timelier than ever. 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