Author: Alex Brick

By Alex Brick – There’s been a dominant narrative surrounding gender dysphoria in youth: that medical transition is not just helpful, but necessary — sometimes even framed as life-saving. But when we actually look at long-term data, that claim starts to look a lot less certain. A large-scale Finnish study tracking adolescents over more than two decades found that youth with gender dysphoria continued to have “significantly higher psychiatric morbidity” even after receiving transition counsel and treatments. “What we’re seeing is that there’s an even greater need for individuals who have undergone these medical interventions for psychiatric services,” interprets the…

By Alex Brick – He was wildly successful, a lawyer with a great career and “life was getting better every day,” so when a friend challenged his worldview with the Gospel, Mike Minot got offended. “I was shocked that he would even make these kinds of challenges,” says Minot, who lives in Colorado Springs. Nevertheless, he undertook the challenge, passed by the library and got some books on science and a Bible. The first challenge to his material worldview was the fine-tuning of the Solar System. “I learned from elementary school that the planets orbit around the sun, but I…