Environmental Progress released a devastating exposé of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) and its recommended medical interventions for children and adults with sexual identity confusion.

WPATH supports dangerous, experimental and body damaging “gender-affirming care” for children and adults, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries. The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific surgical and hormonal experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults features leaked internal files and video footage from WPATH.

The report clearly demonstrates that “the world-leading transgender healthcare group is neither scientific nor advocating for ethical medical care.” The report was written by journalist Mia Hughes, who covers gender issues for Environmental Progress, founded by author and investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger.

The organization works “on a wide range of issues, from climate change to homelessness to freedom of speech, all of which constitute important aspects of our ‘environment,’” Shellenberger explains.

WPATH regularly publishes “Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People,” purporting “to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender [individuals] …”

As Francis August Schaeffer lay dying back in 1984, fading in and out of consciousness, one of his daughters recalls asking him a profound and poignant question.

“Is it true?” she asked, alluding to the Christian faith that originally grabbed hold of the Presbyterian minister as a senior in high school in 1930.

“It is absolutely true, absolutely sure,” he replied.

There’s no way of knowing if Schaeffer was so sure due to the thinness of the veil between life and death — that he saw something reassuring just before he stepped over to the other side.

Francis Schaeffer, an ordained minister who wrote dozens of books and who founded the L’Abri spiritual centers, was an outspoken evangelist at a time when culture was beginning to slide away from Judeo-Christian beliefs. He became a strong defender of the pre-born in the years following Roe, warning that abortion would usher in a culture of death.

Schaeffer suggested preborn babies weren’t the only ones at risk — but also the elderly and the infirmed. He was right.

What else was he right about? Plenty.

Consider these five statements made by Francis Schaeffer well over a half-century ago: 1. “If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong … In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”

Decades of sociological research show women benefit from marriage. As Maggie Gallagher, co-author of The Case for Marriage, writes for City Journal:

“In virtually every way that social scientists can measure, married people do better than the unmarried or divorced: they live longer, healthier, happier, sexier, and more affluent lives.”

She continues:

“Marriage is a powerful creator and sustainer of human and social capital for adults as well as children, about as important as education when it comes to promoting the health, wealth, and well-being of adults and communities.”

But popular culture frequently deemphasizes arguments like Gallagher’s, telling women instead that marriage will oppress and stifle women.

Consider author Lyz Lenz’ essay in The Washington Post titled, “Women are divorcing — and finally finding happiness,” which argues women can’t be married and happy at the same time.

Lenz’ premise is heavily shaped by her own negative experience of marriage. She implies, for instance, that marriage won’t make women happy because men make bad life partners.

She accepts that men benefit “demographically, psychologically and socially” from marriage, but erroneously suggests it’s all at their wives’ expense.

“Academic instruction has taken a back seat to social justice and the sexuality and gender identity of children,” writes Cynthia Tobias in her new book, Reclaiming Education: Teach Your Child To Be a Confident Learner.”

She cites some astonishing numbers to support her statement:

• One in four American children grows up without learning to read.

• Fifty-four percent of Americans between the ages of sixteen and seventy-four read at or below the sixth-grade level.

• In 2018, the U.S. ranked 38th in the world in math scores and 24th in science.

• About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills.

• The statistics demonstrate the rampant failure of our public schools to teach basic subjects.

Despite this, Tobias, an author, speaker and educator, believes parents can take control of their children’s education, helping them achieve academic success and become life-long learners.

To explain what’s gone wrong in education, she points to a post from the radical National Education Association in 2022, where the teachers union stated, “Educators love their students and know better than anyone what they need to learn and to thrive.”