Brandon Showalter
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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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.
Let Women Speak rally drowned out by trans activists before police intervention; 1 arrested
At least one trans activist was arrested Monday for disrupting a rally featuring a British women's rights campaigner speaking out against what she believes is the erasure of women's rights and the danger of experimental gender medicalization in children.
'Generation Indoctrination': What's being done to protect kids legally from gender ideology?
As gender ideology continues to pervade every realm of culture, legislators and public policy experts alarmed by its effects on children have taken numerous steps to thwart it from taking root in state laws.
Generation Indoctrination: Inside the roots of the trans movement
As the public become increasingly aware of what's happening to children in gender clinics, many are bewildered, asking: How did this happen so quickly?
Medically 'transing' children is a media-backed scandal, doctors warn
Medical scandals are particularly difficult to expose when academia, the mass media, and the entertainment industry further them, according to doctors and investigative journalists raising the alarm about experimental transgender medicalization.