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Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria This Year’S Social Contagion Infects ­Teenagers and Their Doctors FIGHTING HOMELESSNESS: What comes first? FEBRUARY 16, 2019 Rapid-onset gender dysphoria This year’s social contagion infects teenagers and their doctors CHINA: Expelling missionaries CITIES: Electric scooter invasion VENEZUELA: On the brink CONTENTS | February 16, 2019 • Volume 34 • Number 3 34 21 40 44 48 FEATURES DISPATCHES 7 News Analysis • Human Race 34 Pressure to conform Quotables • Quick Takes LGBT activists are dialing up the heat on parents and CULTURE researchers who question transgender dogma, while peer influence may be leading some teens into life-changing 21 Movies & TV • Books hormone treatments Children’s Books • Q&A • Music NOTEBOOK 40 When a home isn’t enough 53 Lifestyle • Technology Federal homeless policy is based on a flawed, one-size-fits-all Religion • Politics • Law approach, but one agency is ready to try a more intensive strategy VOICES 44 Expelled from China 5 Joel Belz Missionaries say the Communist country is kicking them out, 18 Janie B. Cheaney one by one 32 Mindy Belz 61 Mailbag 48 Scooters at your service 63 Andrée Seu Peterson For-hire electric scooters have arrived in many U.S. cities, and not everyone is happy about it 64 Marvin Olasky ON THE COVER: Illustration by Krieg Barrie Give the gift of clarity: wng.org/giftofclarity Choose a faculty When you choose a seminary, you choose a faculty. At Southern Seminary, you’ll study with professors like Thomas R. Schreiner, who has written more than 25 books on New Testament and biblical theology. Our professors are trusted for their commitment to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which bleeds through their scholarship and ministries. Your degree will carry the weight of that trust. sbts.edu/world Thomas R. Schreiner Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Biblical Theology Choose a faculty When you choose a seminary, you choose a faculty. At Southern Seminary, you’ll study with professors like Thomas R. Schreiner, who has written more than 25 books on New Testament and biblical theology. Our professors are trusted for their commitment to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which bleeds through their scholarship and ministries. Your degree will carry the weight of that trust. sbts.edu/world Thomas R. Schreiner Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Biblical Theology Notes from the CEO “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein.” —PSALM 24:1 On the day I write this, we have seven people on our relatively small staff who Chief Content Officer Nick Eicher Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky R have worked at WORLD for more than 25 years. By the time you read it, retire- Senior Editor Mindy Belz ments will reduce that number to five. Two beloved staff/friends/WORLD family members are retiring at the end of the Editor Timothy Lamer month, and, for me, the reality is just starting to settle in. 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