Legal Limits
Last week, the state of Colorado passed into law House Bill 25-1312, which made referring to a person by his given name or a gendered pronoun that he does not like to be a punishable offense under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. If you think about it, it means that seeking to help a person resolve her alienation from her gendered body illegal.
I am pleased to recommend a recent Captivate & Conform podcast episode. They interviewed me for their 99th episode, recorded May 5, 2025. The talk came out well, and just in time for Colorado’s action contradicting what I advocate to help the gender-troubled. It puts me (and anyone like me in Colorado) in an odd position. I describe myself doing the very thing (as I do in my book) that is now illicit. If I so help someone in Colorado I am breaking the law.
Close to Home
This reminds me of how, three years ago in my own state, Pennsylvania’s Governor filed an executive order banning legitimate counseling in any government connection for minors with gender dysphoric feelings. Reading the order itself was illuminating. Governor Wolf did not make it illegal but, in the strongest terms, declared the state government itself against resolution of one’s view of oneself with one’s body. The next governor, Josh Shapiro, took no action against it, so it remains in effect in Pennsylvania for everyone doing body reconciling work.
This has happened to our like before, in California in six years ago, well almost.
“Science Falsely Called”
How can these select state governments act so confidently? On what do they base their rulings?
Edicts like these continue to rely on the Trevor Project Study. Dr. Andre Van Mol, of the American College of Pediatricians succinctly explains the deep flaws in this supposedly “scientific” study. You can catch him in this interview, at timestamp 1:00.00, explaining how it lacked randomized perspective design. In its retrospective method it swiftly dispensed with any data that contradicted its intent. The Trevor Foundation used the Green 2021 study, on associating hormonal treatment with mental health, which ignored key variables and twisted the data to declare success in agreeing that someone alienated from her body is trapped in a wrong body.
In addition, they use the 2015 US Transgender Survey, an online survey of trans-affirming websites. How representative do you think those answers are? The USTS did not control for mental health and 70% of the participants did not know what puberty blockers were.
My Lord’s Expectation
Again, I recommend the Captivate and Conform interview, for an alternate view to Colorado of how to help, even though I guess that makes me an outlaw once again. The hosts entitled it: “Is the Sexual Revolution Over? with Dr. Sam Andreades.” Can you guess my answer?
How ought I to think of this? I want to cooperate with government as far as I can, and seek our society’s good. But I recall that it is not my society. I remember that I am part of a different order (John 15:19, John 17:14-16, Galatians 6:14), a new kosmos to come (Revelation 11:15), not this one. Every once in a while, the state makes it impossible for me to forget.