One of the women I admire the most today is Kristen Waggoner, an attorney who is president, CEO and general at Alliance Defending Freedom. Kristen takes cases where she has to defend basic human rights, including all the way up to the Supreme Court. She doesn’t often write articles, but she has a new one in World Magazine, where she talks about how Australia censors free speech.

Here is the article.

It says:

“Billboard Chris” defends kids from gender ideology like it’s his full-time job—because it is.

In 2020, Chris Elston, a father of two from Vancouver, British Columbia, decided he could no longer stand idly by as he saw child after child fall prey to gender ideology. So, leaving behind a successful job in finance, he launched a new “career,” engaging people in street conversations while wearing a sandwich board with pithy messages. One reads, “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.” Another says, “dad [noun]: a human male who protects his kids from gender ideology.”

This is the part that was interesting, especially if you are ever thinking of traveling to Australia for a vacation:

In February, Elston shared a Daily Mail article criticizing the appointment of gender ideology activist Teddy Cook to a panel of the World Health Organization. The article explained that Cook promotes deviant sexual practices, including bestiality and bondage. Elston took to X to state the obvious: that such a person has no business making global policy on mental health.

That’s when Australia’s “eSafety commissioner” demanded that X take down Elston’s post. With Elon Musk at the helm, X refused. The authorities then forced X to block the post in Australia, and X is now suing. Elston is challenging this censorship in court as well, with ADF International backing his legal defense.

I’m sure I’m going to surprise no one when I tell you that Australia’s “eSafety commissioner” is a progressive woman. More often than not, progressive women are always at the bottom of these censorship efforts. They just resort to force in order to silence words that they disagree with. Never marry one of these women. Don’t even date them. It’s not safe.

The reason I linked to this article is because of the interesting evidence that she musters against the most common arguments for transing kids.

Here’s some of her evidence:

One of the most common assertions we hear from activists is that “transition” is necessary to prevent people from committing suicide. That claim is flatly contradicted by the science. In 2011, an expansive Swedish study found that mortality rates among study participants became much worse after “transition” surgeries, with a lifetime suicide rate 19 times higher than the control group. In addition, last year, studies out of Denmark and Finland each reviewed more than 3,000 patients who had undergone transition procedures, both as children and adults, and more than 20 years of records revealed no meaningful improvement in mental health outcomes.

Most recently, a high-profile review commissioned by the English National Health Service found that “the evidence does not support the claim that gender-affirming treatment reduces suicide risk.” The same review echoed warnings that puberty blockers pose “potential risks to neurocognitive development, psychosexual development, and longer-term bone health” among children. These findings were published in the full Cass Review.

As she notes in the article, many countries who were ahead of America on transing children have now put the brakes on it. Sadly, America is lagging behind these other nations. There are a lot of people who are desperate to virtue-signal about their great tolerance: public school teachers, social workers, lawyers, judges, and medical professionals. And of course, transing kids is a big money maker for hospitals, since the kids will be hooked on drugs and treatments long after the surgeries are done.

But there was also this interesting case from Switzerland, too, reported in Daily Signal:

In Switzerland, gender transitions for minors are regulated by the Swiss Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Society (SPED), The European Conservative reports, and under SPED’s regulations, the state can supersede a parent’s refusal to allow their 16- and 17-year-old children to transition if the parents are stripped of their legal authority.

The Swiss child protection agency, or the Service de Protection des Mineurs (SPMi), has full authority over where their daughter is treated, John said. And it has mandated that she receive the “gender-affirming” treatment that her parents believe will harm her.

In late July, the highest court in Geneva (the Court of Justice) ruled against the parents and ordered that they hand over documents necessary for their daughter’s legal “sex change.” If they do not turn over those documents, they face the threat of criminal charges, according to the Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom International.

Check out these articles, and think about what’s at stake in the next election. Would you want people like the Australian chief fascist censoring your speech? Would you like the hospital and the courts to overrule your rights as parents? If not, it would be a good idea to get some of this evidence out in front of your friends and family. That way, they would understand what would happen here if the secular lefts had more political power.

And I also hope this helps you to know how to think about evangelical leaders, who are passionate about Democrat priorities like opening the borders, but silent on issues like this that affect you and your family.

I have a few “Big Eva” friends who cannot understand why I would need an alias. They never take stands on controversial topics, so they have no experience getting pushback from non-Christians. Well, two of the most threatening groups that hunt Christians are Muslims and governments. And worst of all is a government run by Muslims.  There’s no such thing as free speech and religious liberty in Islam.

Here’s the story from ADF International:

A father, imprisoned for over two-and-a-half years for discussing theology with Christian converts in a private Facebook group following his conversion from Islam to Christianity, has declared a hunger strike in a heartbreaking letter to his wife and family.

Religious freedom advocates are calling for the urgent and safe release of Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo following a devastating letter to his family, in which he vows to strike in stages until he makes the strike “complete,” including turning away healthcare treatment and, eventually, food.

Abdo was arrested by Egyptian authorities in 2021 for his involvement with a Facebook page that is dedicated to supporting people who have converted from Islam to Christianity. He was living as a UNHCR registered asylum seeker in Egypt following the death threats he received in his home country of Yemen after he converted to Christianity.

And here is his current status:

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief have received information on behalf of Girgis and Abdo, citing that both men have been deprived of their right to religious freedom and a fair trial under international law. ADF International is directly involved in international efforts to secure their release.

So, what to say about this?

Well, I think we should be concerned about opening our borders to let in unskilled workers from predominantly Muslim countries. And I also think that Christian leaders should stop advocating for open borders, and start equipping their flocks to disagree with Islam using evidence. I don’t mean “share your faith”. I mean make an argument using evidence for why Christianity is true, and make an argument using evidence for why Islam is false. Because if we Christians ever find ourselves living in a country that is majority Muslim, it will not be easy for us to act like Christians.

In case you want to see our Knight and Rose Show episodes where we take on Islam with evidence, look on our podcast page. If you haven’t taken the time to inform yourself about Islam, and equipped yourself to debate it with evidence, you should check out those episodes. And just in general, if you are relying on Christian leaders who don’t know anything about the dangers of Islam, and can’t show their work about why they disagree with Islam, like we’ve done, then maybe you should look elsewhere for leadership.