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Religion, Medicine, and the Future of Transgender Youth
Are medical and religious rights at odds in transgender youth care? Explore the ethical and legal battles in this high-stakes controversy.
Are medical and religious rights at odds in transgender youth care? Explore the ethical and legal battles in this high-stakes controversy.
Is identity subjective or divine? Ancient philosophy and modern debates converge to redefine gender perceptions.
What do leaked WPATH files and the Cass Review reveal? Youth gender medicine practices are unethical and harmful.
Those who disagree with medical and social transition efforts deserve therapy that respects their values.
Exploring the parallels between ancient Greek sacrifices and today’s cultural rituals, the analysis underscores the importance of discerning core doctrines from lesser controversies. It advocates for principle-based discipleship.
President Dallin H. Oaks, of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke last night, Sunday, May 21, 2023, to
Increasingly, we are hearing that honoring preferred pronouns is simply a way to show love and nothing more. Yet this overlooks both the larger ideology connected to this pronoun embrace and its real-life implications, especially in the lives of young people.
With gender identity and transgender questions at the forefront of public discourse in recent years, the need for discerning the truth is as critical as our care for those navigating these questions.
The problem with HB 11 was not its failure to reach compromise on the question of transgender athletic participation, but limiting its scope to a single question, where only one set of competing interests could be served in the end.
Coverage of Utah HB 11, regarding transgender students in high school sports, has generated more outrage than illumination. We wanted to find out if there was more to the story.
An open letter to Latter-day Saint parents of teens who have recently announced a transgender identity.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s remarks at BYU revealed an already-existing conflict over how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its critics conceive of identity. As prophets affirm repeatedly, our true identity existed long before any of our present experiences, and is remembered, more than discovered.