CP event tackles 'turning tide' of trans ideology: 'Nefarious spiritual warfare'

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Monday, September 29, 2025

'Our children are suffering'

The second panel covered the impact of transgender ideology on families, the role of therapists and Big Pharma, as well as the need for compassion and the role churches should play.

The two-person panel included parent activist Amy Atterberry and Christine Sneeringer, who serves as executive director of Worthy Creations, a parachurch ministry for those who suffer with sexual and gender identity confusion.

Atterberry is a mother who watched her own teenage daughter suffer the agony of transitioning with the help of the medical establishment in Oregon. Minors as young as 15 years old in the state are allowed to obtain transgender medical procedures without parental consent.

When her daughter was 19, Atterbery sat helplessly in a nearby room while doctors carved up her daughter's forearm to craft a fake penis for a so-called phalloplasty. Medicaid also paid for her to undergo a double mastectomy and hysterectomy before she was 18.

Atterbery said during the panel that her daughter, who is now 25, is "not doing well."

"She's in pain most of the time; she uses a wheelchair when she has to go any distance," she said. "We're talking about a child who was healthy. She was full of life, beautiful in every way; loved everybody. She was outgoing. She's isolated and lives in a virtual world now."

When she was first trying to make sense of her daughter's pain, Atterbery said she felt alone and that "the world had gone mad," as much of the literature she found was transgender-affirming.

Eventually, she discovered that there were many other parents like her who were attempting to fight an uphill battle against a medical industry that enables the destructive consequences of trans ideology.

She said she has since taken comfort in the presence of God and has asked Him for a platform to raise awareness of the suffering that the ideology continues to inflict on young people.

"Angry isn't quite the word for it," she said to describe how she feels. "Let's just say, I'm not afraid of these doctors, in the least, but I do have Jesus in my heart."

She urged Christians especially to show love toward those who have been captured and caught up in transgender ideology.

"People need to know what's going on, because it's been going on for a long time," she said. "It's still going on. Our children are suffering, and the detransitioners are coming out. They're suffering too, and no matter what stage any of them are in, please show them love. Please show them compassion."

'Complicit in a lie'

Sneeringer, author of Answers to Gender Madness: A Quick Guide to Help You Navigate the Confusion, offered her own struggles with gender dysphoria as insight into how girls, especially, can fall prey to transgender ideology. She stressed that Christians and churches can show compassion and love by standing firm against the deception.

Sneeringer, who said she was the victim of domestic abuse growing up in the 1970s, noted she learned to hate her female body and identity for 20 years as a defense mechanism. She expressed relief that she was spared the possibility of mutilating herself without parental consent, which is an option she said she likely would have taken.

She noted that vulnerable children, like she was, are facing headwinds from the prevailing culture, which has promoted transgenderism from both ends of the age spectrum, celebrating both Bruce Jenner and the teenage Jazz Jennings. She also said Big Pharma benefits from having patients who are hooked for life on cross-sex hormone drugs.

Sneeringer characterized as emotional blackmail the threat from some doctors that a child not allowed to transition will die by suicide, noting there hasn't been a spike in child suicides in European nations that have banned transgender procedures for minors.

She also described as a misconception the idea that "it's unkind or un-Christian to refuse to use preferred pronouns."

"I want to debunk that, because you're being complicit in a lie, and you're just lying to somebody about who they are."

"I want to be really clear on something... we're not against the people who struggle with these feelings; we're against the ideas and the ideology," she continued.

'Irreparable harm'

Atterbery closed the panel by noting that she has personally learned to forgive those who harmed her daughter, but expressed hope that those who have enabled the self-destruction of transgender ideology will someday be punished.

"I would like to see all of these butcher shops shut down," she said of the transgender clinics. "I would like to see every penny taken from these butchers and given to their victims; given to the children and the young people they have harmed. I would like to see them prosecuted."

"On a spiritual level, it has taken many years, but I have forgiven them, because that's what we do as Christians," she continued. "But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't face consequences. They have given our children a life sentence. They've done irreparable harm."

"Why shouldn't they get life sentences?" she added.

Pacienza closed the event by praying over all of the participants, noting that the war against transgender ideology is a spiritual one. He invoked the Lord's help regarding the practices of medicine and therapy, adding that both increasingly appear to have been spiritually weaponized.

"For centuries, these two fields have been based upon fast evidence," he prayed. "Lord, we're living in a cultural moment where that's no longer true. It's now based on feelings and emotions and cultural ideologies, but we know that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but it's a spiritual battle."