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The Impact of Smartphones in Schools 0:06 Good afternoon. I'm Victoria Marshall, and welcome to a special edition of the Washington Watch News Desk. For today's episode, I'm interviewing Meg Kilgannon, a senior fellow for education studies at0:18 Family Research Council. Meg is joining me to discuss the latest trends in education. Meg, thanks so much for coming on the show today.0:27 Thanks for having me.0:28 Now I wanna discuss a positive trend in education. We're seeing across this country more and more school districts are banning smartphones and social media use in schools. Right now, there are 5 states, Florida,0:40 Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina, and California that have enacted some form of a ban in their public schools. May, can you tell us why we are seeing this? And do you expect more states to follow suit?0:53 I think we can can expect to see more of this across the country. So many schools are having discipline issues these days and many, many of the problems that are created in class1:05 between students are, started in the social media of their cell phones. And so when you remove that stimulus from the classroom, it has a much,1:17 a great impact on the entire environment of the class. Now, parents are, support this sort of in mixed opinion because some parents really want to be1:29 able to get in touch with their children while they're at school. And so they want their children to have the phones. Other parents are very excited about this and, you know, would like to have no cell phone access amongChallenges in Education and Technology 1:40 students at well, while the kids are at school. So I think it's gonna be interesting to see exactly how this progresses and and, what kind of limitations we have. There are all kinds of1:52 models being tested across the country right now.1:55 Do you favor a particular model?1:59 I think that it's good to have the students leave the cell phones in their lockers if they're in high school or in the in the school office if they're in2:10 elementary school. And then if the parent needs to get in touch with the child or if the child needs to get in touch with the parents, they can access that device, you know, with2:22 permission. Keep in mind that many, many schools are issuing devices to students with the so called 1 to 1 policies where every student has a school issued computer2:34 or a school issued iPad. And so there are many ways for students to communicate with their parents, through those devices as well. So it's not as if we're getting rid2:46 of screens entirely. It's mainly that this vector that this, where the school doesn't have any control over the wifi access of the students' cell phones that they have for their personal use2:58 allows so many, so many different things into the school. They can access pornography. They can access all kinds of things because of their, the school3:09 can't control that web access on the cell phones the way that the school can try to control it on the computers. So I think this is a positive development.3:19 Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. It's interesting because I think this is related to the the fact that there's a couple outlets that are reporting or just there's some anecdotal evidence of teachers saying and and3:29 college professors are saying that their students do not have the attention span to read books. And I attribute that a lot to smartphone use and smartphone addiction. What do you think about that?3:41 No. I think that's absolutely right. And I think that it's, you know, and it's not just the smartphones, right? It's it's doing the work on a screen as opposed to doing it from a written page or with the written word.3:52 And so as we see AI coming to be a factor in schools and and and and, professors will have questions as to whether or not the student has actually done the work themselves. You know, we may, you4:04 know, everything old may be new again, and and I took my exams in college with a blue book and a pen or a pencil. And that may be what happens again. You get issued a piece of paper, a booklet of4:16 paper to write an essay form the information that you learned in the class, then they know it's your work. Right? So there are, there are a lot of interesting things happening in education, and I hope that some of these4:28 reforms will will, increase the learning of students, which has so sadly declined over these recent years.4:35 Yeah. Totally. Meg, thank you so much for joining me today. And that's today's segment. I'm Victoria Marshall. Up next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. We'll see you next time with more news.Pray Vote Stand Summit Highlights 4:51 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and5:03 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heise.5:10 Good afternoon, and welcome to this special edition of Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heise, the senior vice president here at the Family Research Council and president of FRC Action. So honored to be filling in5:22 today for Tony and glad to have you on board with us as well. We hope you all had a very, very merry Christmas. Well, today, we wanna bring you some special content from our most5:34 recent Prevost Stand Summit. Now for those of you who may not be aware, the pray vote stand summit is our annual event that draws Christian voters from literally all across America to our nation's5:46 capital. And the summit addressed many important issues. It included sessions with political as well as theological experts who talked about things like Israel, education in America,5:58 corporate wokeism, global governance, the war on women, and so so much more. It's absolutely a phenomenal event. Well, today, we're going to share with6:09 you 2 sessions from that summit. 1 is the session featuring children's right advocates, Katie Faust, who spoke on the threats that are facing our children today. The second is a6:21 panel discussion on the transgender movement, and it featured detransitioner and senior, fellow here at, FRC, Walt Hyer, as well as doctor Jennifer6:33 Bowens, who's the director of FRC's Center for Family Studies. And like all the speakers did at the summit, Katie, Walt, and Jennifer really knocked it out of the park.6:45 So we've got a great show coming your way today. And, of course, if you miss any portion of it, you can always catch it by going to our website at tony perkins dot com. Alright. As I mentioned, this past6:56 October, we held our, annual pray vote stand summit. That would be by FRC as well as FRC action, drawing Christian voters from all across the country to our nation's capital.7:08 It was spectacular. Again, among the speakers of at the summit was Katie Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us. That's a global movement that strives to put children before7:20 adults in every conversation about marriage and family. And in her address, Katie talked about the threats facing children today and how many of the issues that we're fighting today are the7:32 same issues faced in the early church in the first century. Let's start with her discussion on parental rights. Here's Katie.7:40 Children's family is also under threat because parents write to their own children is being threatened. Specifically by schools who seem to answer the question to whom do children belong7:53 with the word us. The left seems to think that children belong to the schools, the doctors, or the community. And really what that means is the activists. That's what it means.8:05 But children have a right to their mother and father, and mothers and fathers have a right to their children, and that is being threatened, unfortunately, by the schools that we send our kids to so much of the time.8:17 It's also threatened by laws such as in California and Minnesota that will remove children from the homes of parents that do not consent to child sterilization and mutilation8:29 in the name of transgender treatments. So, when it comes to voting, what are we supposed to do? We vote for candidates and policies that always8:41 reinforce the parent child relationship because there is no substitute for it. Children's minds are under attack. Children actually8:53 have a right to innocence. This is not something that a lot of people have had to argue about in the past. But children have a right to not have innocence violating sex ed9:05 curriculum forced on them in fourth grade. They actually need protection from pornographic library books. Kids can't defend that themselves. Right? We have to do that for9:17 them. Children's minds are being victimized by a lot of the materials that we are siphoning into their worlds through curriculum. Children's minds also need to be9:29 protected by pornography. Right now, the average first age of looking at porn is the age of 12. Pornography can very easily turn into an addiction and has9:40 significant impacts on children's development, emotional, and psychological health. We have got to start standing up to big tech as it relates to porn. We9:52 have got to advance laws that require age verification, so that a 10 year old boy cannot look at more naked women before his feet hits the ground in the morning than most men have ever seen in their10:04 lifetime. Okay? This is child victimization on a mass scale. So how should we vote if we want to protect children's minds? For10:16 candidates and policies that support school choice, so that kids can get out of bad schools and into schools that are serious about protecting their innocence.10:32 And we need to vote people in who are talking about the harms of porn and their willingness to protect kids from it. Children's bodies are under attack. Their bodies are under attack, and10:44 Vanessa just talked about that. It is a very serious victimization that we haven't seen for, you know, about 2000 years, because it's not the first time we've distorted children's bodies for the sake of adult10:56 servicing ideologies. Children's bodies are being victimized. They are not being transformed from a boy to a girl. They are being transformed from a healthy11:08 boy into a boy that will be a lifelong consumer of cosmetic surgery and big pharma. That's what transgender treatments are. These children,11:20 2 thirds of whom suffer from all kinds of comorbidities that is other psychological disorders, depression, suicide, dissociative disorders, unresolved trauma,11:32 are now still going to have to confront those mental illnesses, but they're going to have to do it with a body that is dysfunctional. It is going to be go down as 1 of the greatest medical scandals of our time.11:44 We have to fight against it. Children's bodies are also being threatened when their sex segregated spaces, such as locker rooms,11:55 bathrooms, and changing rooms, are being determined who can use them based on gender ideology or gender identity rather than biology. Why is that such a risk to kids?12:09 Well, when you look at the numbers, a trans woman, that is a man, who is masquerading as a woman, is a hundred and12:20 31 times more likely to sexually assault, commit sexual assault than an actual man, than a man who's not masquerading. And about 630 times more likely12:32 to assault that child than a real woman. There is something and a lot of people don't like to say it, but I'm gonna tell you. There is something about the cohort of men especially who adopt a transgender identity,12:44 who are more likely to victimize others, and we should never put them in spaces where there are no windows and locked doors. We simply should not.12:59 So when it comes to protecting children's bodies, how should we vote? We vote for anybody that rejects the idea that anyone, adult or child, can change their gender. We13:11 simply say no. We say no. So in all of these areas, children's life, family, mind, and body, they are under attack. A lot of people would say that, well, these13:23 are political issues. Don't get involved in that. That's politics. And I would say, no. This is actually what the church has been doing for the last 2000 years.13:37 Roman world, children were being victimized. Their life, family, mind and body. Abortion was rampant. So was exposure. That is allowing13:50 underweight, undesirable, disabled, or female infants, toss them into the river, onto the dumpster, allow the elements to take their course, or for those children to14:01 be ravaged by wild animals. Look what we're seeing today, abortion. And you know what else we're seeing? Exposure. I know in the14:13 VP debate and actually in the presidential debate, that topic came up of letting kids die after a botched abortion, and somehow the fact checkers simply couldn't fact check it.14:25 But in Tim Wall's own state, we know, even though he gutted the Born Alive Protection Act, that since he's been governor, at least 8 children have been exposed. Left to die after a botched abortion.14:37 So we are fighting against a lot of the same issues that the first century church came in and beat back when it comes to defending children's right to life. What about14:49 children's families? Well, when it came to sexual standards, the standard was the man, the free man of the household could do anything he wanted with15:01 whoever he wanted. Women, children, slaves, whatever. Any anything that he said was permissible was permissible. So you had rampant child victimization15:13 on a sexual level, but also that permissibility, that allowance for sexual congress to take place outside of a married mother and father created a lot of fatherless kids.15:25 The Christian world came in and said, no. Sex only between a man and a woman. Don't touch the kids. And you need to have sex only with your husband or your wife. What that did15:38 is it meant that children born to those Christian homes at least, were always raised by their mother and father. The 2 people who are the most connected to, invested in, and protective of them. It meant less children15:49 were fatherless. It meant children were not being used as sexual objects. So Christianity was born into a world where simply the sexual ethic, simply the requirement of total16:01 monogamy within marriage and chastity, and abstinence before marriage, massively protected children. What about children's minds? Again, rampant sexualization of16:12 children. Oftentimes lewd displays happening out in public. Christian said, no. No. These are image bearers. They deserve protection. They actually dignified the first century16:25 church, actually dignified children to such a degree that some sociologist posit that Christianity invented childhood because they allowed kids to be kids in ways that16:36 the pagan culture didn't and wouldn't. And what about children's bodies? Children's bodies were also mutilated in the first century. It wasn't uncommon16:49 for a young boy especially to be made a eunuch, so he could serve in a wealthy household or in government in ways that wouldn't threaten the leadership. Well, I'll tell you there's an organization of17:01 transgender advocacy group called WAPATH, and they created a new sexual identity 2 years ago. You know what it is? Eunuch. So what we're17:12 facing right now is the same thing that the church eradicated in the first century. We are seeing them all again because Christians have withdrawn to such a degree that our17:24 culture is being repagonized. Only Christianity has the answer. Only Christianity dignifies children. Only Christianity insists that their life, family,17:36 mind and body must be protected. Not just in our own personal life, but in our political decisions as well. The first century church, they didn't have the power to vote.17:48 We do. And I would encourage you to use your vote to do what Christians have always done and advance child protection.17:58 That was children's right advocate Katie Faust during the 20 24 pray vote stand summit. You're tuned in to Washington Watch in a special edition, and we're glad to haveChildren's Rights and Parental Concerns 18:10 you joining us. By the way, let me just tell you, if you missed any part of the summit or if you'd like to go revisit some of it, you can do so, but you must have our Stand18:21 Firm app first to get that. Go to the App Store or Google Play wherever you get your apps, or you can also simply text the word app a p p to 6 718:33 7 4 2. That's a p p to 6 7 7 4 2. Alright. After the break, we'll share another session from the Prevost Stand Summit, our panel discussion on the18:45 transgender movement. So stick around. We'll be back in just a moment.18:52 During these challenging times for our nation, Family Research Council continues to serve as a watchman on the wall for faith, family, and freedom. And together, thanks to your support, we're making an19:03 eternal impact. 20 24 has been another year of shining the light for biblical truth in Washington DC. This fall, over 1000 spiritually active governance engaged conservatives19:15 gathered for the pray vote stand summit to pray for our nation and ensure that the issues impacting sage cons were understood and advanced. 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In May, FRC called upon believers to pray for and stand with Israel by dedicating a portion of their worship services to pray for Israel's peace,20:39 prosperity, and protection. With pray vote stand decision 20 24, FRC and Real Life Network led a powerful evening of election night coverage to analyze the election results and20:50 pray that our nation would turn back to God. We also filmed a transformative educational course, God and Govern. Launching in January 20 25, this series will explore the biblical21:02 and historical foundations of our government, empowering you to stand confidently in your role as a citizen of heaven and earth. Family Research Council thanks you for partnering with us for21:14 another year of standing for faith, family, and freedom.21:21 Looking to grow closer to God in the new year? FRC's stand on the word spiral bound journal is here to help. Dive deeper into scripture with thought provoking questions, note taking space, and context for21:33 each book and author. This second edition covering Isaiah 2 Revelation will guide you in tracking your journey through God's word while deepening your faith in Christ. Order now at f r c dot org21:45 slash store or text journal to 6 7 7 4 2. Perfect for you and your loved ones.21:52 Good afternoon, and welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heist. Our website, tony perkins dot com. Today, we're broadcasting special content from the 20 24 pray vote stand22:04 summit that was held in Washington DC. Now in this next part, you'll hear from detransitioner and FRC senior fellow, Walt Hyer, and our director of the Center for Family Studies, doctor for22:16 Jennifer Bowens. Now together, they're gonna talk about what's behind the transgender movement. This is a powerful, powerful segment. Here's Walt.22:26 I started the website 16 years ago, almost 17 years ago, sex change regret, and I because I wanted to find out if I was the only 1 that had regret. And, as I put in the video, 2015, we had22:37 350000 people come to the website. We've we've really had over 4 or 5000 people that we've actually helped through our website, working with them 122:49 on 1, who've come back and restored their life. 4 or 5000 just from 1 website. So what's what's been really the key point, Travis, is23:01 that when people contact me, I realize that and and I know some people may be, this might be new to you, but when people approach me and they say I'm a transgender, I transitioned, and I have gender23:13 dysphoria, I always say, well, you're not a transgender. You never transitioned and you probably don't have gender dysphoria, but we're gonna find out what happened so that you can be redeemed and restored through the23:23 power and grace of Jesus Christ. Because because the truth is, Travis, when they find out that it is categorically impossible to change your gender with23:35 hormones and surgery, it doesn't happen, that it's all like plastic bananas, that they realized there was something else that happened. My story, I was sexually and physically and emotionally abused as a child.23:47 That's not gender dysphoria. That's trauma, and that's where you come in, and that's why our book really points to the issues that are underlying issues. That's what we need to address, not gender dysphoria. They have23:59 dysphoria, but oftentimes, it's not related to their gender. It's related to something else.24:10 Jennifer, Walt just mentioned the issue of trauma. Can you share a little bit about how that's related to this issue and even what you've done in your background, how you see it coming to24:22 bear on the the this the issue we're discussing right now?24:26 Yeah. Basically, I so I'm coming from the trauma field, and all of the issues that sort of manifest as a result to of going through trauma are present in the24:38 transgender identifying community. And what's disturbing is that none of my colleagues really look at this and are curious enough to say, why is this? Because in the24:49 research world, what should be happening is all of these if we know that trauma is high in a population, what we should be doing is including that variable in every piece of25:01 research that we produce because it's significant, and we need to understand the population well. But not when it comes to the transgender research literature. They don't they don't include it. They're not curious.25:13 Why is self harm so high in this population? And in fact, the the very act of gender affirming care, right, is self harm, which is an expression25:25 of trauma. So that's 1 of the things that Walt and I wanted to look at and to bring out into the open is what are the manifestations of traumatic stress, and how what's the overlap there25:37 with with the trans identifying population?25:40 Jennifer, is it you know, as you're sharing, I'm thinking it it almost seems like for those of us who've been following this issue in the media and the culture and the in the political discussion, it's like we're25:51 presented with this idea that that the the whole the battle is over the trans issue and over the using the terms that we've heard discussed. But it almost seems like the real issue,26:03 which is not being discussed, is the question of underlying trauma, is the question of how academia has approached the research, and how that's filtered into the26:14 media and the culture.26:17 Yeah. I'll 2 things here. So 1 of the main arguments that's given for the trans population is that they have26:28 minority stress. So in other words, if you are a person who is a minority, then you're gonna be more likely to be bullied. But here again, it goes back to what I just said.26:40 You have to parse out what is actually attributed to trauma and what is something else. Well, this is the same population. It's very often people who are, trans26:52 identified have trauma. And very often people who have trauma are bullied. So, you know, again, they're not parsing that out. The second issue here with the academy is I think27:04 it's really important to to note that a hundred percent of research psychologists have and according to federal election data, have given to a liberal, Democrat candidate.27:16 100 percent. 96 or or let me let me say 92 to about 96 percent of psychologists and social workers are giving to a liberal candidate.27:29 So what does that tell you? It tells you that the interventions that are researched to intervene for, any type of mental health issue or those27:41 intervening, and the actual workers who are implementing those interventions are probably from a liberal mindset. Right? So this is our opportunity,27:53 and this is the call for many of us here, which is why Walt and I produced this research. A lot of times on our side, we're responding to a discourse rather than creating28:05 a discourse. And what we wanna do is we see a population that is vulnerable, that has been taken advantage of, that has no no means of intervention. Because once they28:16 go through gender affirming care, there there's no insurance to go through a detransitioning process. There is no insurance to cover the trauma that happens to someone who's been told28:28 by the medical community, this is the way you're gonna get better. That when they're build that lie, there's no answer for them. There's no insurance code to go through that. So this is28:40 where we as the Church of Jesus Christ have a grand opportunity. Because for 1, people are looking for compassion. They're looking to be heard. We are in a mental health crisis.28:52 And we can be that answer to that mental health crisis by showing the true answer, not another ideology that's gonna lead people down a path that is basically29:04 leading them to the need to have another solution. So, that's really the heart of why we're writing this is 1 to to understand, to bring to light what are the true issues behind the29:15 transgender movement, but also as an opportunity for us to really connect and get our own issues, you know, kind of dealt with. Because we can only give29:27 away what we ourselves have received. You know? Freely you've received, freely give. And, as we become healthy people, it becomes really attractive to the world, and then we're ableShow more In this video 0:06 The Impact of Smartphones in Schools1:34 Challenges in Education and Technology4:39 Pray Vote Stand Summit Highlights18:02 Children's Rights and Parental Concerns29:33 Transgender Movement and Underlying Issues
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