Talk Truth 08.20.26 – Maria Keffler | Former middle and high school teacher Maria Keffler, who holds a master’s degree in educational psychology and co-founded Advocates Protecting Children, discusses the debate over biological sex, gender identity and women’s sports. She explains why she believes gender ideology has become deeply embedded in schools and culture, the pressures facing parents and children, and what families can do when a child begins questioning their sex. Maria also discusses her book Desist, Detrans, and Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult.

00:00 Opening: What Is a Woman?
01:00 Maria Keffler’s Background
01:45 Guest comes in: Maria Keffler
02:26 The WNBA Is Being Forced to Define a Woman
02:58 Men in Women’s Sports
05:09 Former NBA Players Push the Question
06:33 Why Are People Afraid to Speak?
07:40 How Disagreement Gets Silenced
08:26 The Money Behind Medical Transition
09:44 What Children Are Being Told
10:37 How Did Gender Ideology Take Hold?
11:33 Who Funded the Movement?
13:12 How Gender Ideology Entered the Culture
13:57 Is Gender Ideology a Cult?
15:42 The Eight Characteristics of a Cult
17:15 What Happens to Detransitioners?
18:07 Love Bombing & Intolerance of Dissension
19:58 Is Gender Ideology a Religion?
20:25 Men in Women’s Sports & Changing Language
21:36 Sex vs. Gender
22:15 Desist, Detrans, and Detox
22:51 What Should Parents Do?
23:41 Schools, Social Media & Smartphones
24:43 A Family That Reached Out Five Years Ago
25:40 Maria’s Advice for Parents
26:05 Psalm 24
26:24 Words Don’t Create Reality
27:16 Free Living in Truth Devotional