Research
Understand the risks and concerns.
We present research and data to help you better understand the risks and concerns about these issues.
Homosexuality
Homosexual feelings can develop because something difficult is going on in your family or social life, like a divorce, tragic circumstance or abuse.
Among kids who claim a gay identity (or are sexually active at a young age), the health risks include:
- Higher rates of sexually transmitted infections
- More likely to experience negative mental health effects like feelings of disappointment and regret
- Higher rates of depression and suicide attempts
- Higher rates of substance abuse like drugs and alcohol
- Lower academic achievement
The longer a student waits to come out as gay, the less likely they are to experience these health risks.
- For each year a child delays this self-labeling or coming out, the risk of suicide alone decreases by 20%.
Adults who encourage and affirm kids to come out as gay may be wrongly labeling kids which could then lead them into homosexual behaviors they wouldn’t otherwise have pursued and will later regret.
- Most people grow out of their homosexual feelings by age 25.
Some of our above research conclusions were derived from a briefing paper of the International Organizations Research Group (IORG) along with the Christian Medical & Dental Associations’ (CMDA) references in their position statement on homosexuality.
Transgenderism
Abigail Shrier, who authored Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, stated in 2021:
- Teen girls susceptible to the transgender social contagion tend to have prior struggles with high-anxiety, depression, social situations and tend to hate their bodies.
- Susceptibility increases with:
- A school environment where she can achieve status and popularity by declaring a trans identity.
- The teenage temptation to stick it to mom.
- The intoxicating influence of social media, where trans activists push the idea that identifying as trans and starting a course of testosterone will cure a girl’s problems.
- Put those together, and you have a fast-spreading social phenomenon.
- Shrier found that more than 70 % of people with gender dysphoria naturally outgrew their gender dysphoria
Shrier states, “These teen girls are in a great deal of pain. Almost all of them have at some point dealt with an eating disorder, engaged in cutting, or been diagnosed with other mental health comorbidities.”
“Today… we don’t leave these children alone. Instead, the moment children seem not to be perfectly feminine or perfectly masculine, we label them as ‘trans kids.’ Teachers encourage them to reintroduce themselves to their classes with new names and new pronouns. We take them to therapists or doctors, nearly all of whom practice so-called affirmative care—meaning they think it is their job to affirm the diagnosis of gender dysphoria and help the children medically transition.” — Abigail Shrier
Lisa Littman (physician, researcher, assistant professor at Brown University School of Public Health) authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE entitled Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports.
- Littman surveyed 256 parents of students at top girls’ schools who attest that 15%, 20%, or in one case 30% of the girls in their daughter’s seventh grade class identify as trans. She identifies this as social or peer contagion in action.
- In other words, attitudes and ideas are catchy and contagious, including the lie that you may have been born in the wrong body, with the wrong biological sex.
- Littman compares the peer contagion among teenage girls that occurs with eating disorders (like anorexia) to peer contagion with gender dysphoria (believing that your biological sex does not align with your perceived gender).
- Littman said, “Just as friendship cliques can set the level of preoccupation with one’s body, body image, weight, and techniques for weight loss, so too may friendship cliques set a level of preoccupation with one’s body, body image, gender, and the techniques to transition.”
- Scholars and parents have found that children who came out as transgender had been using social media more before they came out. In other words, social media encouraged the development of their gender dysphoria.
- 60.7% of adolescents in Littman’s study became more popular after they came out as transgender.
- 60% of the friend groups in the study were known to mock those not identified as LGBTQ.
- Parents of children who came out reported:
- 47.2% of them noted declines in their child’s mental health
- 57.3% of them reported degradation in parent-child relationships
- They also stated their children expressed a range of negative behaviors that included:
- distrust of non-transgender people (22.7%)
- stopped spending time with non-transgender friends (25%)
- isolation from their families (49.4%)
- trust in information about gender dysphoria only from transgender sources (46.6%).
- She concluded that when adolescents and young adults came out as transgender, though their popularity increased, it resulted in worse well-being, worse parent-child relationship, unchanged or worse grades, and fewer interests/hobbies.
Littman also found it may be difficult for adolescents and young adults to de-transition back to their original gender due to the new attention, social approval and new identity.
She said in her research, “a parent of a child who wanted to revert back relayed that the child thought none of her friends would understand and expressed a strong desire to get out of the culture that ‘if you are cis, then you are bad or oppressive or clueless.’”
Also, “Two families were able to relocate and both respondents reported that their teens have thrived in their new environments and new schools. One respondent described that their child expressed relief that medical transition was never started and felt there would have been pressure to move forward had the family not moved away from the peer group.”
Littman’s research concluded that rapid-onset gender dysphoria that is socially encouraged and/or used as a coping mechanism has the potential to cause:
- Non-treatment or delayed treatment for trauma and mental health problems
- Alienation from their parents or social support systems
- Isolation from mainstream, non-transgender society; this may impact educational and vocational potential
- Possible irreversible medical or surgical transition risks without benefit, and possible risk of harm