The flame of the West is alive - by Heather Heying

The West is spasming, gasping for air. But it is not too late. We can save the West. Music and dogs might help. My last stop after several weeks of travel brought me to Denver this past weekend for the Genspect conference. Genspect is an organization focused on a “non-medicalised approach to gender diversity.” The conference was heart-breaking and hopeful, both. Many people have their eyes wide open, and are energized and activated to do everything they can to stop the barbarism of using hormones and surgery on young people who don’t feel at home in their bodies. I spoke to many parents of beloved children who are in crisis. Their children—adolescents and young adults—believe themselves to be the sex that they are not. One father of a young man who believes himself to be female blames himself. The anguished father said “We brought it in to our house. We were good liberals. We sent him to summer camps that, now we can see, were indoctrinating him. We dropped friends when they disagreed

The West is spasming, gasping for air. But it is not too late. We can save the West. Music and dogs might help. My last stop after several weeks of travel brought me to Denver this past weekend for the Genspect conference. Genspect is an organization focused on a “non-medicalised approach to gender diversity.” The conference was heart-breaking and hopeful, both. Many people have their eyes wide open, and are energized and activated to do everything they can to stop the barbarism of using hormones and surgery on young people who don’t feel at home in their bodies. I spoke to many parents of bel