Billy Burleigh struggled with his sexual identity since the age of five. His first memory of this struggle was standing in front of the school he was attending, looking at all the other kids, wondering where he belonged, and having this thought, “God made a mistake, I’m a girl.” Billy did not share this thought with anyone but continued on to graduate from high school. He graduated college with a Bachelors and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, and he swam competitively for the college he attended. On the outside, it appeared that Billy had it all pulled together.

But the struggle in Billy’s mind about his sexual identity did not go away. Billy fought his thoughts for years before agreeing with his thoughts. He transitioned to appearing as a woman, changed his legal documents, and presented as a woman for about seven years. But the problems he was trying to resolve only became worse. At this point Billy called out to God; he gave both his life and all of his problems to God. Now, Billy is married to a beautiful lady, has two daughters, a son-in-law, and is living for God.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

Maria Keffler is a co-founder of International Partners for Ethical Care, which seeks to halt the unethical medicalization of children for profit. Ms. Keffler is also a co-founder of the Arlington Parent Coalition, a watchdog group in Arlington, VA, which works to safeguard parents' rights and children's safety in public education. An author, speaker, and teacher with a background in educational psychology, Ms. Keffler has fought to protect children from unethical activism and dangerous policies around sexuality and transgender ideology since 2018. She lives in Arlington, Virginia (USA), with her husband and three teenage children.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

Jane Robbins is an attorney and retired senior fellow with the American Principles Project in Washington D.C. At APP she worked on issues related to education, parental rights, and religious freedom; she testified about these issues before Congress and the legislatures of 12 states. Since retiring from APP she has focused on issues related to the sexualization of children in schools, healthcare, and the culture at large. Her articles on these topics have been published in numerous national media outlets. She also serves on the board of a new organization called American Achievement Testing, which is developing a traditional U.S. history curriculum to be offered to high schools as an alternative to current Leftist models. She is a graduate of Clemson University and the Harvard Law School.

"The administrative state book was written several years ago with two of my APP colleagues. It's an attempt to delve deeper into how the bureaucracy of the federal government really dictates so much state and local policy. It does have a couple of chapters about education -- how we got to the pathetic state we're in -- and the chapter about rigged federal research is especially applicable to the trans issue."

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here, with readings and resources.

Erin Brewer developed a trans identity in first grade. She did everything she could to be a boy. Her teacher sent her to the school psychologist for assessment because her behavior was concerning. Thankfully the school psychologist did not affirm her, instead she came up with a plan for her mother and teacher to help Erin manage her difficult feelings. It took years for Erin’s trans identity to resolve but she is thankful that she got the help she needed to address the underlying cause of her trans identity rather than being told she was born in the wrong body and inherently flawed.

Erin grew up in Salt Lake City and earned a B.S. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has a Doctorate in Instructional Technology and Learning Science from Utah State University.

Erin shares her deeply personal story to help others understand the damage that is being done to our children by the transgender movement.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

(March 31, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith.  They're discussing women's empowerment, the transgender movement, the day of invisibility, and the Ruth Institute's new resource center on the topic.

Maria Polaris (not her real name) and her husband’s lives were turned upside down when their daughter ran away from home after her first year of college in 2015. Someone they didn’t know picked up their daughter and helped her attempt to change sex.

"Since then," Maria says, "our family has had to find ways to cope, because once a child is 18, they can do whatever they want in the U.S. including, full medical transition without psychological assessments. This has led to regret and grave errors in the medical community. Ohio has six major gender clinics with the largest one boasting over 1600 patients (funded by a family in the process of transitioning their own child since age 3)."

Maria is now part of a support group for parents of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria. They are also active advocates for more humane, evidence-based public policy in the area of gender identity.

No one is "born in the wrong body."

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here with readings and resources.

(February 11, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith.  Today they're discussing Planned Parenthood's emerging new business model: transgender hormones. The sidewalk counselors are seeing it even as the kids aren't seeing what they're getting themselves into. Planned Parenthood, of course, is seeing repeat customers and dollar signs.

(January 25, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Molly Smith on Salem Radio's "From the Median." They're discussing the diocese of Lansing's policy on gender identity, which is a counterpoint to the policies recently enacted in other areas, including the public education system in Virginia. They also touch on the importance of calling out good behavior, positive and negative peer pressure, unassailable insurance directives, language control, and female erasure.

​(January 21, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing the diocese of Lansing's policy on gender identity, which is a counterpoint to the policies recently enacted in other areas, including the public education system in Virginia.

​(January 14, 2021) Dr J is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's Driving Home the Faith. They're discussing the rights of children, transgenderism, and how to provide the healthy response to toxic ideologies regarding sex, gender, and family.

(September 8, 2020) Fr. Paul Sullins is once again a guest of Molly Smith on Salem Radio's From the Median. They're discussing the American Journal of Psychiatry's recent corrections to a study they'd previously published that recommended gender-reassignment surgery; those recommendations turned out to be pulled from thin air and not indicated at all by the actual data.

(September 3, 2020) Fr. Paul Sullins is once again a guest of Fr. Rob Jack on Sacred Heart Radio's "Driving Home the Faith." They're discussing the recent retraction of a transgender study that claimed positive effects of gender-reassigning surgery without citing any actual evidence…after another study of the same data found increased risk of negative effects including suicide.

André Van Mol, MD is a board-certified family physician in California. He serves on the board of Moral Revolution, and is the co-chair of the American College of Pediatricians’ Committee on Adolescent Sexuality. Dr. Van Mol is a blogger for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations and co-chairs their new Transgender Task Force. He works with Alliance Defending Freedom in defense of sanctity of life and First Amendment issues, and advises Global Medical Research Institute. Dr. Van Mol teaches a course on bioethics. He and his wife Evelyn —both former U.S. Naval officers— have two sons and two daughters, the latter of whom were among their nine foster children.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here. Readings & resources below cut.

Readings and Resources

• American College of Pediatricians' “Gender Confusion and Transgender Identity” page
• Parents' Resource Guide (geared for parents and grandparents): genderresourceguide.com
• Dr. Van Mol’s writings at the Christian Medical & Dental Associations: cmda.org/author/andrevanmol
• Sex Change Regret: sexchangeregret.com/research

Resources from the Ruth Institute

• Dr. J Show interview with Robert Vazzo
• “Euthanizing the Unhappy,” Dr. Morse's article about the shoddy job the medical profession does of screening for mental health issues prior to doing transitions (from Ruth Speaks Out and Public Discourse)

Action Items

• Join moral professional associations, such as
  • American College of Pediatricians, acpeds.org
  • Christian Medical and Dental Associations, cmda.org
  • Catholic Medical Association, cathmed.org
  • American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, aaplog.org
  • Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, segm.org

Tracy Shannon is mother of 4 blessings and a grandmother. She has studied what she calls the “neo-morality movement” for 20 years. Tracy’s family was profoundly impacted by the transgender movement many years ago, and that moved Tracy from the sidelines (merely protecting her own children from being inducted into "new" sexual mores) and onto the battlefront in the culture wars.

Recently, Tracy has taken on Drag Queen Story Hours in Texas and across the country. She exposed how libraries determined to introduce children to adult entertainers and transsexuals disregarded their own policies allowing sex offenders to be held out as role models to young children in taxpayer-funded public libraries.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

Tracy is the Texas Director for MassResistance Texas, and led parents there in pushing back against the debauched drag queen program for children as young as four. She has also contributed to research of the programs across the nation and helped parents in several states push back against this programming.

Dr. Erin Brewer developed a trans identity after being molested in first grade. She did everything she could to be a boy. In her mind, she *was* a boy. But instead of enabling this delusion, Erin's mother eventually sent her to a therapist, and she received proper care to manage her gender confused feelings. She eventually accepted her gender, but continued running away from God.

She became a star on the most popular pornography site in the world, making the top 20 most popular amateur performers, with over 10.8 million views and more than 400 videos. She was saved from pornography when she accepted Jesus as her Savior. She deleted all of her videos and is now speaking out about the dangers of gender ideology and porn. She openly shares her deeply personal story to help others understand the damage that is being done to our children by the transgender movement. Erin earned her bachelors degree from Hampshire College, and her Doctorate in Instructional Technology and Learning Science from Utah State University.

This is an audio podcast of The Dr J Show. Full video episode is available here.

Action Items

• Dr. Brewer urges followers of the Ruth Institute to contact your congressmen and senators to express opposition to the Equality Act
• Tell our legislators to pass laws requiring age verification for online pornography
• Petition our state legislators to ban transgender drugs for children
• Share memes on social media like those found on the Ruth Institute Facebook page
• Oppose bans against “conversion” therapy, and share stories of reparative therapy helping people out of unwanted same-sex attraction (see the Ruth Institute's Cloud of Witnesses project)
• Email your local school district and find out what kind of “sex positive” and “inclusive” programs your school districts support.
• Lobby school districts to oppose any policies that allow a child to self-identify as the opposite sex
• Write or call the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and tell them to stop supporting Dr. Olsen-Kennedy, who is encouraging children as young as eight years old to take cross-gender hormones and 13 year-old girls to have their breasts amputated:

  Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  4650 Sunset Blvd.
  Los Angeles, CA 90027
  Phone: (323) 660-2450

• Write or call The National Institute of Health to express opposition to funding Dr. Olsen-Kennedy’s child abuse:

  National Institutes of Health
  9000 Rockville Pike
  Bethesda, Maryland 20892
  Phone: (301) 496-4000

Resources

• Visit Dr. Brewer's blog: trailheadwithgod.blogspot.com
• Check out many more of her videos at "Truth Is The New Hate Speech" (also called "Choose Your Own Diagnosis"):chooseyourowndiagnosis.com
• Learn more about Gender Ideology on Erin's YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/ErinBrewer
• Read the Compassion Coalition Blog website: thecompassioncoalition.blogspot.com
• Compassion Coalition's Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/507342576879277

This week's podcast is a "primer" in Gender Ideology by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse. She spoke to a Catholic group of teens and their parents in Arizona last week, and after her talk, she took questions from the group. We thought it made a perfect introduction to the subject, including offering answers to those struggling with pressures from friends and the media on transgender issues.

We hope to produce many other "primers" on topics of critical import to the family, marriage, and children's rights. We kind of think of it as "Basic Training" in "resisting" the politically-correct world. As we say in the introduction:

Faith, love, and hope are being destroyed in the hearts of vulnerable people. Life and death are literally in the balance. This is your "basic training" in a war for societal sanity.

RUTH INSTITUTE RESISTANCE: In these basic training episodes, Dr. Morse will dispel politically-correct confusion, expose lies, and reveal freedom-giving truth.

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(October 25, 2019) This Friday, we have some urgent action items for you with regards to a breaking case in Texas. James Younger, a 7-year-old boy, appears to be being forced to live as a girl by his non-biological mother. He is in danger of being chemically and possibly surgically transitioned in addition to being forced to wear dresses, a train of craziness that began when he watched "Frozen" and liked the character Elsa. We're making available hotlines to Governor Abbott, petitions, and generally raising awareness, which may have an effect on Judge Kim Cooks' handling of this case. More details in this special breaking news episode of The Dr J Show.

Governor Abbott's opinion hotline is (512) 463-1782 or gov.texas.gov/contact, to reach Texas governor Greg Abbott. The Judge handling this case is Democrat Kim Cooks of the 255th Family District Court. The hashtag for this issue is #SaveJames. Keep the heat on!

LifePetitions also has a SaveJames petition, currently with over 76,000 signatures: Support Dad and Texas Governor's bid to save 7-year-old boy from being turned into girl

(October 24, 2019) Dr J is once again Todd Wilkin's guest on Issues, Etc. They're discussing the terrible case of James Younger, which involves issues surrounding transition of a minor, parental custody, divorce, and artificial reproductive technologies.

Dr J mentioned a segment of our new video podcast where she interviewed Brandon Showalter for a broad overview of the current transgender movement; that's available here.

So we're trying a new content stream--a news-y video program called "The Dr J Show." Dr J gets to meet a lot of experts in her line of work, and we'd like to also introduce them to you. This is the audio of our fourth episode's interview with guest Dr Michelle Cretella. She's executive director of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), and she's also one of the world's most outspoken critics of gender ideology in pediatrics. Dr J has her complete bio and a great conversation coming up.

The video and more resources are available in the show write-up here.

For the video of "The Dr J Show," check out our website or YouTube.com/RuthInstitute. Tune in every Friday for a new episode.

So we're trying a new content stream--more of a news-y video program. Dr J gets to meet a lot of cool people in her line of work, and we'd like to introduce some of them (as many as possible, honestly) to you. This is the audio of our first episode's interview with guest Brandon Showalter. Dr J has his bio, and then we're off and running, and they'll be discussing transgenderism. Brandon's a reporter for the Christian Post, and this is one of his beats, so he's written an incredible number of articles on the subject. The list of links in the show notes is long but well worth reading. Just a warning: the video of this episode has some graphic pictures. The audio will have a couple of graphic descriptions in it.

(July 26, 2019) Dr J is once again a guest on Ave Maria Radio's Catholic Connection, where she's speaking with host Teresa Tomeo about current events in culture and politics. They're discussing power plays with business organizations and professional associations on sexual revolutionary topics, specifically the "Gender Justice Toolkit" panel at the upcoming NAACP convention in Detroit.

(October 13, 2018) Dr J is the keynote speaker at the Respect Life Conference in Meriden, Connecticut. She gave two talks; this is the second one, "Protecting Your Children from the Gender Ideology." If you missed her first one,  "Understanding the Sexual Revolution," check it out in our regular podcast stream. Unlike the first talk, this one contains some content not suitable for young ears.

(June 21, 2018) This year's Acton University is in full swing! Dr J has been with the program since the beginning. This year her talks are all themed "The Sexual State;"  they highlight how various ideologies ingrained in our culture are products of and further the aims of the toxic sexual revolution. This is her second talk, entitled "The Sexual State and the Gender Ideology."

(January 15, 2018) Dr J was invited to speak at the Altar Society at Our Lady Queen of Heaven in Lake Charles on the transgender ideology currently being promoted all over the United States--specifically in libraries, through children's books.

(November 18, 2017) We're live at Mass Resistance's "Teens4Truth" conference at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas! Check out our podcast stream for her talk (on transgenderism), but here she's interviewing fellow family justice warrior Denise Shick on her work with Help4Families Ministry in Kentucky and her experiences growing up with a secretly transgender father.