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French Friday: The End of #MeToo

The MeToo movement was a huge cultural movement—but now, many major government leaders with sexual abuse scandals under their belt seem to go under the radar—how did we get to this point? And what about the aftermath of the ChurchToo movement? David and Skye discuss this, as well as a case in the Supreme Court about Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical intervention for kids.




0:00 - Theme Song


0:17 - Show Begins


7:19 - MeToo as a Christian Ethic


12:34 - False Safety in Christian Subculture


22:48 - The Bad Patterns in the Aftermath


28:45 - Bon on Transgender Medical Intervention for Kids


35:14 - Rational Basis Example


44:45 - Tattoos and Parental Consent


52:09 - David’s Prediction on the Court Ruling


58:15 - Looking Forward to Superman


1:06:23 - End Credits

2 Comments


Laura Gatannah
Laura Gatannah
Dec 28, 2024

Denying puberty blockers to trans kids is absolutely solely based on their gender presentation. Purity blockers for cisgender kids have been used for decades, and they will continue to be used. Will doctors have a higher bar to pass to treat precocious puberty in the future? My guess is probably. We have seen here in Texas that all the abortion stuff has made OBGYNs hesitant to treat and even to leave the state. So I think Tennessee doctors are going to find this is more problematic than the legislature intended for it to be.


I feel like if you think that the whole of pediatric endocrinology and psychology is absolutely wrong, to the point that you want to enact laws…


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Kra789
Dec 29, 2024
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I agree that the bans on abortion in Texas have made it difficult for doctors to perform the procedure. Sadly, in cases where abortion is needed to save the life of the mother, they are not performed out of fear of legal consequences.


Pediatricians are faced with a similar choice between legal consequences and helping those who may benefit. This is not to say that all children with gender dysphoria may benefit from puberty blockers or hormones. I believe that there is a wide range of what we call “gender dysphoria” and that sometimes this just means feeling uncomfortable in the body you are in to absolutely believing you were born the wrong gender all the way to genetically having…


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