Now it's cultural communism. It's not about the proletariat, the haves, and the have-nots. It's about are dividing society. Welcome to the oppressor and the oppressed. That's Ayanne Hersi Ali and Truth Rising, a groundbreaking documentary film which premieres September the 5th.
Focus on the family and the Coulson Center. In the film, Ayanne Hirsia Lee unlocks the dangers of critical theory as she says in the film the West has dropped the ball. at the worst time on the critical question of our day, the question of identity. What does it mean to be human? Ian's a human rights advocate and former atheist whose conversion to Christ made headlines just a few years ago.
She has spent her life advocating against practices that violate the rights of of women. You can hear her remarkable story. and the globe will premiere of Truth Rising on September the 5th. As confusing as this civilizational moment might be, it's just a moment. It's not the whole story.
We can be confident that we are living in God's story. Christ is Lord of all. and he has committed to us that he is making all things new. We've been placed in this precise moment. for a reason.
You're called to be faithful wherever God has placed you. That's what Truth Rising is all about. It's an invitation to see this civilizational moment, understanding that God has put us here, and to live and act with courage wherever He's put us. Sign up for updates at truthrising.com slash Colson. That's truthrising.com slash Colson.
Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. In his book, Begotten or Made, ethicist and theologian Oliver O'Donovan noted that the vast majority of those who struggle with transgender feelings were middle-aged males.
Now that observation from 1984 was true then, but it's no longer the case today. Today, according to research released just last month from UCLA's Williams Institute, a far greater percentage of young people, teenagers, identify as transgender, about 1.4% of that teenage population, than adults do, only about half a percent. And even more, there's been an explosion of teen and preteen females identifying as transgender. In her book, Irreversible Damage, Abigail Schreier was the first to suggest that this growing rate of transgender confusion among young girls was in fact a social contagion. At the time, of course, she was widely attacked for making that claim.
But since, and especially recently, Schreier has been largely vindicated. And Chloe Cole knows all about this because she was in her early teens when she began to question her own identity as female. Voices from various places immediately chimed into her life, especially through social media, suggesting that she would be happier as a boy, and she quickly found a medical community willing to push her to change her body. They saw her, in her words, and I quote, as simply being another transition. Cloy's parents, well they were told that if they did not support their daughter's transition, they'd be complicit in her suicide.
Backed into a corner, they believed the live son-dead daughter myth that they were told. Zachloe was placed on puberty blockers and testosterone and approved for a double mastectomy. all by age fifteen. When she experienced complications from her transition surgeries afterwards and from the drug regimen, her doctors resisted, refusing simple tasks like scheduling regular blood tests or sharing information on her medical charts. And that went on until about a year after she underwent the double mastectomy, Chloe began to realize all that had been taken from her.
Chloe told her whole story on the Strong Women podcast, which is hosted by my wife Sarah. and it is a must listen to understand all that happened in the last several years on this issue. Here's Chloe Cole explaining when she began to doubt all the lies that she had been told. I think the major turning point of my transition. When I realized just how much of a toll all of this was taking on my body, but especially with how.
Sudden. The changes were of the surgery and just how grueling the healing process was. in every single way. It like flipped a switch in my brain. And I had this epiphany that And none of this was changing me in any meaningful way.
But it was taking away parts of my health and potentially future parts of myself as an adult, as a woman. As somebody who was soon entering adulthood. And I was starting to figure out. That one day I wanted to have kids. One day I wanted to get married and actually I was very naturally feminine.
I wanted to Experience all the great trials and tribulations that come with being a woman. of being a girlfriend and then a wife. And all the beautiful things that come with that feminine role. There were a lot of things that I missed about that. And it would break my heart if I never would be able to become a mother.
I really start to reflect on how these changes in my body were actually affecting me. Not only was it a much harder life to live, I also may never be able to Reach those milestones of adulthood. of having A traditional marriage of having children of my own. That ended up being the nail and the coffin of my transition. All of those feelings, all of the grief that I was going through.
Maybe you realize. I can't continue this. But I will be able to find a life and personal fulfillment. and happiness outside of it. Because Chloe had the courage to admit that she had been deceived and to embrace the truth, she is now an incredible example of what it means to live with clarity and courage in this civilizational moment.
You can also see Chloe tell her story and the new Truth Rising documentary which premieres this Friday. She's one of five stories of courage that are told in detail to inspire all of us to be people of courage.
So visit truthrising.com slash Colson to see it for yourself. That's truthrising.com slash Colson. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with Breakpoint. If you're a fan of Breakpoint, leave us your review wherever you download your podcast. And for more resources to live like a Christian today, go to breakpoint.org.
