Matthew Tyler

Mother’s Day seems emotionally complex because churches haven’t pastored modern women well. This is worldly thinking in disguise and the byproduct of toxic empathy culture (which ladies are especially prone to). There are 51 other weeks of the year to talk about all the people dealing with pain and heartbreak related to motherhood. Having one day to just celebrate moms full throttle is great. Likewise, a day to celebrate dads is great. You can talk about absent dads and abusive dads and dads who have died 51 other weeks of the year. Imagine if everyone at a birthday party expected the birthday boy to take time before blowing out his candles to acknowledge everyone who had lost a loved one at some point. That’d be crazy! It’s a time for celebrating life. The Church should not be reinforcing worldly victim mindset or coaching people into toxic empathy. It seems harmless to take 60 seconds to acknowledge those who are hurting from the stage, but it subconsciously reinforces wrong & selfish thinking. The woman who once had a miscarriage can mourn that (and we’ll mourn with her 51 other Sundays of the year), but she can also celebrate her own mom and be happy for other moms on Mother’s Day. We are to rejoice with those who rejoice. Not every celebration needs to come with a disclaimer and caveat for the people who are hurting. We can weep with them 364 other days per year. Every adult always has a reason to hurt about something. You don’t need to stir mourning into every time of celebration. It’s actually not good for people, which is why the Bible says there’s a time to weep and a time to rejoice.

People are shocked that all it took for the AMA to change its policy on pediatric gender transition surgeries was for another medical group, the ASPS, to do it. But this phenomenon is how the unanimity among the medical groups fell into place in the first place. It was only ever based on a few small committees within a couple of medical organizations, putting aside WPATH, which is a quasi-activist-medical organization. It got started in the 2010s as WPATH and the Endocrine Society, which have a lot of overlap between them and referred to one another's guidelines in their citations, put out guidelines. And then in 2018 a single medical resident wrote the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statement on the gender-affirming care method. Along the way, other major medical associations took these other groups' lead, including the APA and AMA. And then all the other ones fell in line. These groups did not conduct major independent analyses of the evidence. Even the AAP never conducted a systematic literature review to support its policy statement. And in August 2023, the AAP said it was going to conduct one. But there is no sign that the organization has even started on that. Because if they ever did, there is only one conclusion that it could have: that the evidence backing providing gender-transition interventions to minors is weak and inconclusive. All this is to say is that the mantra "all major medical association support gender affirming care for kids" was always a hallow claim. What it really meant is that: "A few small committees at a few organizations decided to support this, in part because of one another, and all the other small committees at all the other organizations followed their lead."

Despite the AMA's backpedaling, they radically supported pediatric gender butchery. Their Board of Trustees created a Task Force that protected doctors who "are required by medical judgment and ethical standards to act against state and federal laws." The "state and federal laws" they were referring to were laws restricting pediatric gender interventions and abortion. This Task Force was not just words on paper but composed of elected representative from seven state medical associations and 11 national medical organizations that worked with insurance companies, federal regulatory agencies, and state Medicaid orgs to thwart Red State legislative bans and federal investigations. In this way, the AMA served as the nexus of the criminal cartel of butchers and child abusers. They had the institutional power and resources to carry out this protective function that essentially amounts to criminal conspiracy to violate state and federal law. And this is only ONE of their policies. There are literally dozens, if not hundreds more just like this.