There are not many people who could stomach a career in exposing the truth behind gender ideology. The days are often filled with heartbroken parents, violent threats, horrific details of mutilated bodies, the mainstream media’s blatant propagandizing, and the government’s gratuitous gaslighting.
But that’s exactly what Brandon Showalter, host of the Christian Post’s “Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle” podcast, has been doing for the past eight years.
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“This is one of the worst medical scandals of all time in our estimation,” he told The Washington Times’ Higher Ground. “The fact of the matter is that the mass media is actively deceiving and lying to people about what’s happening… I can show you medical documentation in medical journals that are widely respected by doctors showing that girls as young as 12 and 13 have had their breasts amputated. Boys as young as 15 and 16 have had their genitals amputated.”
Mr. Showalter says the sheer number of “medical crimes” in the name of transgenderism is shocking, from the surgeries to putting children on untested hormone blockers and the use of cross-sex hormones that render young people sterile. But another big problem is the media’s brainwashing, which is allowing these atrocities to continue.
“Once you sort of realize the extent to which the press is propagandizing the public to believe things that are just abjectly false, namely that men can be women, that boys are girls and girls are boys, and that you can transition to the other sex, which is impossible, by the way… Then you begin to realize the extent of the harm that’s being done,” Mr. Showalter noted. “Gender ideology is the denial of reality itself. And that’s why we make such a big deal of it here at the Christian Post… If people can make you believe that men are women and women are men, I think they can make you believe just about anything.”
With so few standing up to the mainstream media and working to change the narrative being targeted at young hearts and minds, Mr. Showalter felt strongly that he had to do more. That’s why he started “Generation Indoctrination,” a documentary-style podcast series “aimed at exploring the roots and impact of the transgender craze.”
“We started this podcast in the fall of 2022, just to try and educate the public. In addition to the print reporting that we were already doing as a publication, [we wanted] to try and tell the stories that the corporate press, the mass media was not telling,” he explained. “We were determined to be a voice for all the professionals who object to this, to the parents who were affected, to the young people, the detransitioners who were affected.”
Now in it’s fourth season, the podcast has succeeded in giving a voice to those who are pushing back on gender ideology. In fact, season four will highlight those who are “actually doing something” with hopes of inspiring more people to do whatever they can to respond boldly and effectively to the transgender chaos.
“I think a lot of people who, when they find out the depth of depravity and the extent to which this ideology has captured all of our institutions, it’s one of the first things that they realize is that there’s no cavalry coming,” Mr. Showalter noted. “It’s going to fall to you to do something. And usually, the people that it falls to are those who don’t realize it until it’s too late, or especially if it impacts their own kids and their own families, then they realize.”
That’s not to say standing against gender ideology is ever easy. Mr. Showalter says that without his faith, he simply couldn’t do what he does — or have the sense of hope that he does in the midst of such “radical evil.”
“As people who value justice and, you know, sane medical ethics for goodness sakes, and reality, the truth of biology, we have to respond with great courage and truthfulness,” he said. And the Lord brings His strength to us when we are weak. And I’ve learned that in a whole new way [as] I’ve done this.”
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Marissa Mayer is a writer and editor with more than 10 years of professional experience. Her work has been featured in Christian Post, The Daily Signal, and Intellectual Takeout. Mayer has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.
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