Kyle Horne

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

🚨 Massive news with worldwide repercussions!

The FTC, along with Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, have filed a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), alleging the organization has provided the means for medical providers to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services.

WPATH, an association of clinicians who profit from pediatric medical transition services, recommended medical interventions, including drugs and surgery, for children and adolescents who expressed dissatisfaction with or distress about their sex traits. In their complaint, the FTC and its state partners allege that these recommendations misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness, of such services, in violation of the FTC Act.

"Today, the FTC filed a lawsuit against WPATH alleging that the organization made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding the necessity, effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers, hormones and sex-change surgeries," said Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson.

"Children, but especially their parents, must have complete and truthful information when making decisions to purchase medical services. For decades, the FTC has taken action against entities that make deceptive and unsubstantiated health-related claims. The complaint filed today reflects that same long-standing mandate: when an entity makes a claim about a medical treatment, the claim must be truthful, evidence-based and not misleading."

In 2022, WPATH omitted all mention of age limitations for breast amputation or penis removal from the "Standards of Care" document providing the organization's official recommendations for treating sex-trait-related dissatisfaction or distress in children.

As alleged in the complaint, WPATH did not base this decision on medical evidence.
As described in the complaint, in several instances, parents seeking help for their children were asked by clinicians whether they "would rather have a live daughter or a dead son," based on WPATH representations that pediatric medical transition services are "lifesaving." As the complaint argues, there is no competent and reliable scientific evidence to suggest these interventions reduce the risk of suicide.

WPATH claims its recommendations represent "consensus-based expert opinion." This leads WPATH members and other clinicians to repeat to consumers false, misleading or unsubstantiated statements about safety and efficacy found in WPATH guidelines, according to the complaint.

According to the complaint, despite the absence of competent and reliable scientific evidence, WPATH's guidelines label nearly every pediatric transition service as "medically necessary" to maximize the likelihood that insurers will pay for the pediatric transition procedures.

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@dmichaelclary @Spiker_Yu is an absolute stud

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Horrific.

"They seized my baby and sliced him in two with a knife.

My second child woke up. They split his head with a machete."

This is the reality of what Muslim extremists are doing to Christians in Nigeria.

The MSM and the UN are silent.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

50,000 Christians massacred in Nigeria since 2009. 🇳🇬

33 Christians massacred over Easter weekend in northern Nigeria. 🇳🇬

27 Christians were massacred on Easter Sunday in Plateau state Nigeria. 🇳🇬

Meanwhile, the Pope is visiting a mosque in Algeria.

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@drantbradley Dr. Bradley, in a big enough group you are going to find plenty of everything. Though basically all of the men that I know and see that are doing bold, difficult, dangerous kingdom building work are evangelicals. What group did you have in mind that is producing a better ratio?

[Matt Schick @ESPN_Schick]

The most important video you’ll watch today.

He is Risen.

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@RMeena21620 @GuntherEagleman Rajesh, thanks for asking. We believe Jesus died on the cross to take the punishment for our sins so we can dwell with God forever. This is the ‘gospel’ or ‘good news’ that Christians talk about. We celebrate his death and resurrection for us.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

An award-winning 35-year longitudinal study asked how parents succeed in passing on their religious convictions.

The study found two surprising results:

First, “having a close bond with one’s father matters
even more than a close relationship with one’s mother.”

In other words, fathers wield influence, whether they want to or not.

Second, the relationship with the father must be warm and close. A father can be a leader of the community, a pillar of the church, a moral exemplar, but if he is perceived as cold and distant, the child will not follow him, will not adopt his spiritual and religious convictions.

Here's the study:

[Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist @AdamLaneSmith]

New research indicates that fathers build bonds best with their children (and craft secure attachment in them) by "destablizing the child" in a "safe environment. Fathers in the study had a unique ability to make their children laugh and therefore create more perceived safety for the child which led to stronger attachment. Mothers made children feel safe too, usually with repetition and soothing, but the laughing and playing did not make the children as attached as it did when fathers performed it.

Several things jump out from this at me:

First, a father who is relaxed enough to laugh and play indicates a safe environment. Fathers are biologically the providers of safety, so if dad is relaxed, the world must truly be safe. Children may be picking up on this.

Second, being worthy of a father's time and attention is a huge marker for kids. A father's attention may actually mean more in many cases, as we've seen in other studies. The bond with mom is equally as important, but sometimes the bond with mom is taken for granted, where the bond with dad is taken as remarkable due to perceived other demands on his time.

What this means: Dads, you've got to be playing with your kids. As silly and disruptive as possible. They need this from you. It's one of the strongest ways they can bond to you.

More about the research: https://t.co/EQdjHrpGbg

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@ClownWorld @grok who is the interviewer here?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@thriving__kids Agree

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@adamh0 @ClayTravis @weareangelcity Why not do away with male/female categories all together?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Continuing our hypothetical situation, if JS was a false prophet, would you see the BoM as still a legitimate testament of Jesus Christ, or would that make it illegitimate, or something in between?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women And if he was clearly demonstrated to make false predictions and therefore be a false prophet, what would be your best explanation for the Book of Mormon?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women I see what you mean - the existence of the book itself points to his legitimacy, note the contents as compared to himself. That's fair.

Based on the test in Deuteronomy, if you came to believe that JS made a false prophecy, would that make him a false prophet in your eyes?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women I have read it. Do you agree with the Bible's test of a false prophet?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Of course, it's going to be a path of circular reasoning if we test a potential prophet by his own theological worldview. If you test Muhammad by the Quran or JW's by their books, they all pass.

This is what Deuteronomy offers as a test. Would you agree with this?

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Of course there are many organizations growing and doing humanitarian work. I'm asking you what objective standard would you use to know if JS is a false prophet or not.

[Kyle Horne @pinehusk]

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Thanks for sharing. How would you know if he was a false prophet?