Brandon Showalter
Opinion writer and social commentator
Brandon M. Showalter is a journalist and podcaster with The Christian Post who has reported extensively on topics of theological interest in the Church; bioethics issues such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, artificial reproductive technology, and surrogacy; and the developments of the "gender identity" movement and transgender ideology.
He was first inspired to pursue into a career in writing and journalism while mopping floors and scrubbing toilets as a church custodian in April 2015.
He earned a bachelor's degree in international studies and Spanish from Bridgewater College of Virginia in 2007, a Master of Arts in human rights from The Catholic University of America in 2022, and is a fellow of the John Jay Institute for Faith, Society, & Law. He is also a graduate (class of 2015) of a three-year, non-degree program at Bethel School of Ministry in Redding, California.
His favorite thing to do in life is to sing.
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Inside a father's fight to save his son in ‘trans sanctuary state’ of California
After a state family court severed Ted Hudacko’s joint custody from his trans-identifying son, the California father was left twisting inside a legal straitjacket while his son underwent a procedure that even violated a California court order protecting the child, a scenario countless parents across the U.S. might face given the state’s commitment to being a “sanctuary state” for underage sex change procedures, he says.
Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities (film review)
An El Salvadoran immigrant woman is standing behind a podium in a Washington, DC auditorium. It’s March of 2022 and anguish is etched on her face, her grief palpable and her lips quivering. She’s recounting her worst nightmare – how she learned that her troubled teen daughter had knelt in front of an oncoming train and ended her life.
The AP’s institutionalized betrayal of journalism and the truth
The Associated Press is an agent of pernicious deceit, and while that is not entirely new, their latest advice is a smarmy clinic in gaslighting dressed up as objectivity.
Eunuchs, 'Frankenstein level stuff' and ISIS: This trans sci-fi horror story is real
Picture a 4-year-old boy dressed head-to-toe in pink, saying: “If you want girl parts and you don’t have them, you can do special surgery where they turn your penis inside out and there’s a vagina inside.”
What is Holy Week and what does each day symbolize?
Each year Christians around the world, particularly in liturgical traditions, reenact the final moments of Christ's life on Earth as part of a weeklong observation now known as Holy Week. The days of this week after Palm Sunday include Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.
Is Munchausen syndrome by proxy driving kids to identify as trans? Psychiatrists answer
As the debate over transgender medicalization erupts nationwide and more states pass laws banning the mutilation of adolescents' bodies, one largely unanswered question remains: Why are so many mothers trans-ing their children?
NIH experiment ends with 2 suicides by trans-identifying youth
Never mind that the youth are now possibly sterile, likely have endocrine complications, and are at a much greater risk of cardiovascular disease and various cancers. At least they’re not as anxious!
'Dead Name' unveils intimate portrait of parents raising trans-identifying kids (film review)
“It feels like a gut-punch to parents because it’s like the child saying, ‘I’m trying to cancel my childhood.'"
'It’s the most helpless feeling': Women forced to live behind bars with male rapists speak out
When advocates for incarcerated women tell their friends and family and the general public that female inmates are being housed with male sex offenders what they often encounter is shock and disbelief. But this is, in fact, happening today.
‘I feel like I lost 9 years of my life’: A detrans woman speaks out
After undergoing several years of experimental gender medicalization to look like a man to the outside world and extinguish the inner turmoil she felt about her sex, Laura Beth Perry Smalts wound up with regret.
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