Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

00:00:00.000 A popular detransitioner influencer now says he is re-transitioning back into a woman. But what 0.98

00:00:08.780 is the truth about Thomas Niza Powers? We will go through this story today and the truth about

00:00:17.340 his testimony. Also more vitriol against Erica Kirk after the White House Correspondents'

00:00:24.440 dinner shooting. I've got a response to all of that. We've got that and a lot, lot more of

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00:00:46.980 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:51.760 You can probably hear it in my voice. I am a little bit under the weather. I almost don't

00:00:56.960 even want to say that because I don't feel like I have a cold. I started having a cold last

00:01:01.640 Wednesday. It's Wednesday. It's been a week and I've just had like the lingering effects. And

00:01:06.300 the last thing that's holding on is this little tickle in my throat. And so I'm just going to

00:01:11.520 pray, Lord, please keep that at bay so I can tell you all the important things that we need to talk

00:01:17.720 about today for about an hour without having to stop and start and all of that good stuff. But

00:01:23.100 this sickness, this cold is going around right now. Almost everyone I know, every child I know

00:01:28.420 has had this like lingering cough thing going on. So prayers for all of you, those of you who are

00:01:33.860 going through sickness right as you're entering into this crazy time of end of school year and

00:01:38.480 start of summer. Hopefully this is just like the last sickness shebang before summer starts and

00:01:44.560 we're free of all of this crazy, germy stuff going on. All right. I'm so glad to be back with

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00:03:34.200 Also, if you love this show, please leave us a five-star reveal on Apple, on Spotify. It helps

00:03:40.140 us a lot. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube, all of that good stuff. Speaking of YouTube,

00:03:45.320 YouTube audience had a really big reaction to the debate with Jacob Hansen on Monday.

00:03:51.220 I have received so many meaningful messages from that debate, people who used to be LDS,

00:03:57.460 people who are currently LDS but appreciated the dialogue, people who just wanted to know more

00:04:02.840 about what LDS people believe versus what we believe.

00:04:07.380 Now, there's also been a lot of angry people

00:04:09.360 in response to this,

00:04:11.120 and there shouldn't have been any anger.

00:04:13.040 People who said that, oh, I was rude or mean.

00:04:16.140 I'm sorry, that's just, it's just not true.

00:04:18.600 It was a very respectful debate.

00:04:20.100 I thought Jacob did a great job of representing his side.

00:04:22.720 I thought he was very respectful.

00:04:24.660 And I just want you to know, and this is true,

00:04:26.960 whether you are evangelical like me,

00:04:28.660 whether you're Protestant or Catholic,

00:04:29.780 like whether you are LDS, whatever, Muslim, whatever you are, that someone firmly pushing

00:04:38.200 back and disagreeing and confidently asserting their position is not hateful, okay? That's not

00:04:43.520 rude. That's not mean. And if you see that as rude or mean or hateful, that's not an indication

00:04:48.240 of that person. That's an indication of the weakness of your own faith. And I don't say

00:04:52.200 that to be rude. We've all been in that place before, but just know that. That comes from a

00:04:56.980 place of insecurity and not feeling like you would be able to intellectually defend your own

00:05:03.040 side. It shouldn't make you angry when someone is confidently asserting what they believe.

00:05:07.600 Jacob didn't make me angry at all when he was saying what he believed, which is not the same

00:05:11.840 thing as what I believe. And, you know, I saw some people saying that, oh, he didn't know that

00:05:17.640 this was going to be a disagreement, a debate. Well, that's not true. We did know going in that

00:05:24.920 this is going to be a conversation about our disagreements. And that is a debate. My style

00:05:31.020 of debate, if any of you have ever tuned into Relatable, is not sitting at a table with a timer

00:05:37.520 like it is on Jubilee, but it is conversational, the same way with David French, the same way that

00:05:42.320 I've had with other people in the past. And Jacob came extremely prepared. So he did know ahead of

00:05:48.100 time. As you saw, if you were watching this, he had pages and pages of notes, and he had all of

00:05:52.540 this answer is ready to go, which I think is great, by the way. But that told me that, yes,

00:05:56.200 he absolutely knew exactly what we would be talking about, how we would be talking about it,

00:06:01.240 and the kind of questions that I would be asking. There was absolutely nothing that was surprising

00:06:05.940 or a trick or anything like that. We were very open from the beginning, and the conversation

00:06:11.040 was exactly as advertised. And I'm very thankful, and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to

00:06:17.460 share the gospel, which is a different version than the version of the gospel that LDS people

00:06:24.140 believe and that Jacob presented at the end. And that is something that I just really want to

00:06:29.560 emphasize to my Christian audience out there is that we are in, it doesn't seem like it,

00:06:38.040 maybe this is not even the right word, but I was going to say like we are in a gospel

00:06:42.580 drought in America. And I've realized that as I've seen some of the comments surrounding that

00:06:49.000 conversation that just absolutely were appalled, that I would say that there are two options for

00:06:54.900 someone's eternal destination, heaven, those who are in Christ, and hell, those who are without

00:07:00.160 Christ. That is what the Bible teaches. That is what Christianity teaches. I was shocked that

00:07:06.180 that was surprising. And so I don't know if drought is the right word, because you do have a lot of

00:07:10.840 churches and people preaching the gospel, but there is a huge, huge deficit of understanding

00:07:15.640 of the gospel in America. So yes, I think third world missions are really important, but understand

00:07:21.760 we are in a mission field, Christians, right now. Like your neighbor who calls themselves a Christian

00:07:28.200 may not know the gospel. They may not know that they can't earn their way to God and that there's 0.96

00:07:35.280 nothing that they can do to contribute to their salvation, that God has accomplished it all for

00:07:41.260 them on the cross through Christ. I saw a beloved Catholic commentator on X say that as strong as

00:07:51.800 he is in his faith, he doesn't know where he is going after he dies. And that just broke my heart.

00:07:57.920 This is a brilliant, devout person, and he says that he is not confident in knowing where

00:08:05.060 he is going after he dies, but that he trusts in Jesus, and that it really does make me

00:08:11.420 very sad that there is confidence in the gospel.

00:08:14.660 There's confidence in Christ.

00:08:16.520 When Christ says to the thief on the cross who had faith, today you will be with me in

00:08:21.580 paradise, that is the confidence that those of us have in Christ.

00:08:26.200 If by grace through faith you have believed in him for the forgiveness of your sins, you are

00:08:31.780 reconciled to God forever. And I was just drawn to this passage this morning, and then we'll get

00:08:36.680 into the rest of our episode, and I just want to share it with you. It's a little bit long, but

00:08:40.920 and it's got a lot of, if you're new to Christianity, like it's got a lot of Christianese

00:08:45.680 in here, and I would just recommend to you that you would look on your phone, look online, maybe

00:08:51.600 buy you an ESV study Bible and just really meditate on this passage and think about what

00:08:56.720 it means for us and what it means about the character and trustworthiness of God and the

00:09:02.000 good news of the gospel. So this is Colossians 2, 1 through 15. Therefore, as you received Christ

00:09:07.600 Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith,

00:09:12.960 just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by

00:09:18.080 philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition according to the elemental spirits of

00:09:23.440 the world and not according to christ for in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily and you

00:09:29.140 have been filled in him who is the head of all rule and authority in him also you were circumcised

00:09:34.620 with a circumcision made without hands by putting off the body of the flesh by the circumcision of

00:09:40.600 christ having been buried with him in baptism in which you were also raised with him through faith

00:09:46.300 the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead, and you who were dead in your trespasses

00:09:51.660 and the uncircumcision of your flesh. God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all

00:09:56.900 our trespasses by canceling the record of death that stood against us with its legal demands.

00:10:02.240 This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them

00:10:07.560 to open shame by triumphing over them in him. That is really good news. All right, let's move on to

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00:11:25.420 Okay, let's talk about what happened on Saturday. That tragedy just left me

00:11:31.280 reeling for several days. I'm still just in shock that this happened, that we're

00:11:38.000 back here. And it's so crazy how the news just moves on. And yet this, it almost feels routine

00:11:46.160 and it really shouldn't. So let's talk about it. A man, I won't say his name, a 31-year-old

00:11:52.980 California man, he opened fire at the White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington,

00:11:57.520 DC. He apparently, according to his manifesto, had the intent of killing President Trump,

00:12:03.760 killing members of his administration. And he had this whole manifesto that was released by 0.76

00:12:09.840 the New York Times and the New York Post. And he didn't name Trump by name, but he said,

00:12:14.500 I don't want to be, you know, I'm tired of this pedophile rapist coating my hands with his crimes. 0.99

00:12:21.060 And he really wanted to get the top dogs in charge. 0.98

00:12:26.240 And there were a lot of questions about the security.

00:12:29.140 He was a hotel guest.

00:12:30.480 He traveled by train with his firearms from California.

00:12:33.660 He's a teacher in California.

00:12:36.360 He's got a social media footprint where he talks all about left-wing politics.

00:12:41.500 He donated just a little bit, but still donated to Kamala Harris.

00:12:45.100 and it's just your typical left-wing talking point guy. Actually, you wouldn't really look

00:12:52.980 at his social media and think violent. You would just think, ah, typical liberal. He believes all

00:12:57.680 the things that MSNBC told him. But that tells you something about progressive ideology and

00:13:02.200 about these talking points that you and I are just used to hearing at this point, that they're

00:13:06.980 Nazis, that they're fascists, that they're all of these terrible things. For certain people,

00:13:12.020 that is an accelerant. Maybe there's something already violent or unstable in them. And that

00:13:17.500 just quickens the flames so that it actually manifests itself in actual violence. And so

00:13:26.060 he was a hotel guest and he was able to secure like a room where he got his gun ready. He sped

00:13:32.460 past all of the security and he shot in the lobby. Thankfully, he was apprehended by security.

00:13:37.700 a lot of things i think in my opinion that could have been done better security wise to ensure

00:13:43.780 that no one like that was even able to enter the building but that's a different conversation for

00:13:49.280 a different day i do think it's important that this conversation doesn't lead to

00:13:54.220 just while we need better mental health support sure like there are actual mental health issues

00:14:00.740 that we have in this country but we've got an evil problem in this country like it's evil you

00:14:05.580 don't actually have to be mentally insane to commit an evil act. You could just be evil and

00:14:10.700 have evil intentions. This is true since the beginning of time. I don't like it when people

00:14:15.220 try to make everything evil psychiatric because it denies the reality of human nature. And it

00:14:23.080 actually, the presupposition is there is that everyone is inherently good, but that something

00:14:28.480 is a little bit off to make us not good. And that's not it. Everyone is inherently bad. We're

00:14:35.240 not always as bad as we could be, but we have to be made better. We have to be made ultimately

00:14:42.240 regenerate by the Holy Spirit, but we have to be conditioned and taught to be better and to be

00:14:47.200 peaceful. And so this person was just acting out human nature, murderous human nature that we've

00:14:53.040 seen almost since the beginning from the beginning of humanity. Also, the grossness that we see in

00:15:00.400 human nature is not just through something murderous like this, but people's willingness

00:15:04.520 to mock this kind of event and specifically to mock Erica Kirk. I mean, this woman, Charlie Kirk's

00:15:10.860 widow, can literally do, according to these people, nothing right. She can do nothing right.

00:15:17.280 If she's at home, oh, well, she's in hiding. What is she doing? Why isn't she out there leading?

00:15:24.360 Why isn't she showing up at this University of Georgia event? 0.75

00:15:29.280 Why isn't she doing more?

00:15:32.160 And if she's out there, where are her kits?

00:15:34.560 Why isn't she taking care of her home?

00:15:37.260 If she smiles, oh, well, she got over that quickly.

00:15:40.240 There was a picture of her with Lawrence Jones.

00:15:42.740 He's a Fox News host.

00:15:44.300 They were smiling, just friendly.

00:15:46.740 And all kinds of people were saying, oh, she moved on quickly.

00:15:50.360 They were making fun of her for smiling.

00:15:52.120 and then there was a video of her leaving and she was crying. I'm not going to play it because

00:15:56.560 I just don't know if that's something that she really wants circulating on social media,

00:16:00.780 but it did go viral. She's with security. She's crying and she's saying, I just want to go home.

00:16:06.400 I mean, imagine how traumatizing this is for her. I can't think of a time recently where she's

00:16:12.500 gotten dressed up and gone to one of these events. I'm sure she had to be convinced to go. She was

00:16:16.800 probably excited. This is a really fun event to get to go to. And she and Andrew Colvett and some

00:16:22.040 other people from Turning Point got to go. She looked beautiful. And then this, and then to hear

00:16:27.740 that there's a gunman trying to assassinate people in the administration the way that her husband was

00:16:33.960 assassinated. She probably just feels like evil is following her. And of course, she's thinking,

00:16:40.660 wow, I'm risking my own life here. And that's obviously not what she wanted. Anyone would

00:16:45.900 think that this would be a secure event because you've got the succession to the presidency there

00:16:50.340 and so i imagine that she was so traumatized now what was the reaction by everyone was it a

00:16:56.780 unanimous expression of compassion for what she's going through no unfortunately you've got posts

00:17:03.600 like this with 47 000 likes giving erica kirk assassination cptsd is so funny actually another

00:17:11.100 post with 55,000 likes on x crying laughing face the most performative woman who ever lived

00:17:17.800 another post 73,000 likes not her crying LMFAO a lot of people saying this I actually blocked

00:17:27.360 someone on Instagram okay so this is not just people on the left although progressivism is

00:17:32.620 an evil ideology produces just a callousness in people but certainly horseshoe theory confirmed

00:17:39.180 You've got people who consider themselves on the right, and you can guess who their favorite influencers and podcasters are, who commented in one of my posts about this event on Instagram saying basically the same thing about Erica.

00:17:55.140 That, oh, her fake tears, that was really entertaining to watch.

00:17:59.640 Block, you're a bad person, okay?

00:18:01.800 You are just playing this very dangerous game with your soul. 0.69

00:18:06.020 You're gambling.

00:18:07.340 You're gambling here.

00:18:08.420 like this is such a dangerous thing for you to have to bring before the lord one day

00:18:14.420 that you found it to be an entertaining sport to mock someone's widow that you claim

00:18:21.620 these people on the so-called right that you claim to admire now i am not someone who is saying

00:18:29.940 um that you cannot criticize a public figure she's a public figure okay she's the ceo of a

00:18:36.740 massive, very influential nonprofit organization that is in the limelight that has helped get

00:18:42.900 very powerful people elected. She is the CEO of that. I'm not saying that she is above any and

00:18:49.400 all critique. I think it's fair for people to have legitimate and fair critiques of anyone in the

00:18:56.760 public eye and in a position of influence and leadership. And I'm not even talking about the

00:19:02.800 people who are questioning law enforcement about different things about the investigation, okay?

00:19:09.800 Like, that's a separate conversation. I think Tyler Robinson 100% did it. But, okay, maybe there

00:19:15.220 is a way to do that with integrity and honor. Just ask some questions. Hey, are there some

00:19:19.900 holes in the official media story and the official law enforcement story? Okay, I'm fine with that.

00:19:25.380 We can ask questions and be a critical thinker. But if you cannot do that without relentlessly

00:19:32.380 and mercilessly mocking Erica Kirk, then you've got a soul sickness, man. Like there is something

00:19:39.620 deep and dark going on there. You cannot, as a Christian, because a lot of these people on the

00:19:45.180 so-called right who are doing this call themselves Christians, you cannot stand before the God of the

00:19:51.420 universe with a clear conscience and know that your life is dedicated to your entertainment,

00:20:00.860 your income, whatever, is dedicated to mocking a widow. It's just not possible. And so if you do

00:20:09.780 feel good about that, and you're like, well, I don't really feel any conviction. I think that

00:20:13.920 this is fine. That's not an indication that what you're doing is okay. That's an indication that

00:20:19.520 you are calloused, that you worship the God of self. You worship the God of money. You worship

00:20:24.600 the God of entertainment. You worship the God of sensationalism, not the God of scripture.

00:20:29.380 Okay, that's what's going on.

00:20:30.760 All of us in different times in our lives have had times of trying to justify sin and

00:20:35.940 to assuage conviction, okay?

00:20:38.080 But because God is good, if you have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit hounds you and is

00:20:42.940 like, you keep wanting to do this, but I'm not going to let you feel good about this.

00:20:48.060 You're going to keep feeling bad about this until you repent.

00:20:51.800 Okay, but if you don't have the Holy Spirit, then you can keep feeling good about really

00:20:57.000 awful things for a long time.

00:20:58.440 And if you keep feeling good about and finding joy in the mockery of a widow, that is an

00:21:05.360 indication of the absence of the Holy Spirit in your life.

00:21:08.300 It just is.

00:21:09.380 And that's not Ali Stuckey's judgment, okay?

00:21:11.720 That is the nature of the Holy Spirit because he is the convictor.

00:21:16.820 He is the helper.

00:21:18.240 He helps sanctify us.

00:21:19.960 And if you are not feeling any of those things when it comes to blatant evil and sin, I'm

00:21:24.760 just saying there's something really deep going on there.

00:21:27.500 And I say it in the hope that that will change.

00:21:32.000 And really, like, I know this might seem dramatic for a lot of people, but you always ask, like, how did these evil atrocities happen in the world, in history?

00:21:40.220 I can't believe that that tragedy or that injustice happened on a mass scale.

00:21:46.140 How in the world did people just allow that to happen?

00:21:49.180 This shows you how it happens.

00:21:51.820 It takes one person being willing to go out there and consistently dehumanize.

00:21:56.980 and consistently deride. And then it takes a few people being entertained by it. And then more

00:22:05.340 people being entertained by it. And then it becomes less of a person that you're talking

00:22:09.980 about. And it just becomes this abstract thing. These people talking about Erica, I don't even

00:22:14.940 think they see her as a person. I think they just think this, she's a character. She's a thing to

00:22:20.720 make fun of. She's a Drewski skit. Ha ha. I mean, Joe Rogan has done the same thing, mocking her. 1.00

00:22:28.240 I think when someone's humanity in your mind goes away, you can justify anything. You can justify

00:22:35.720 anything. So just be careful. I'm not telling you always trust the government. Always trust

00:22:42.580 law enforcement. Never critique a public figure. I'm not saying that. Like if you can't separate

00:22:48.040 that from being evil? That's your problem. James 1.27 reminds us, religion that is pure and

00:22:55.240 undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their infliction and to keep

00:22:59.860 oneself unstained from the world. I actually think that last part is maybe the most pertinent here.

00:23:06.640 Isaiah 1.17, learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless,

00:23:11.520 plead the widow's cause. Psalm 68.5, father of the fatherless, protector of widows, is God and

00:23:17.960 his holy habitation. Exodus 22, 22 through 24. You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless

00:23:25.360 child. If you do mistreat them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry and my wrath

00:23:29.620 will burn. You know, a lot of people are like, well, she's not just a widow. She's also this,

00:23:36.440 but she is a widow. She is a widow. Like you can separate those things, but that doesn't, 0.86

00:23:42.440 her being a CEO doesn't negate the fact that she's a widow. It seems like this is something

00:23:47.740 that's super important to God is how we treat this category of vulnerable people. And for those

00:23:55.020 who are like, no, I'm just concerned about her kids. I think that she should just go home and 0.95

00:23:59.100 be with her kids. I promise you that Erica loves her kids more than you do. I promise you. I 0.97

00:24:04.480 promise you that she thinks about their well-being and thinks about what is best for them more than

00:24:11.380 you do, more than I do, more than anyone on this planet. Erica Kirk is invested in the well-being

00:24:18.560 and security of her children. So we can all have opinions. It's easy to have opinions. You see

00:24:25.720 someone on social media, you think you know their entire life. By the way, social media multiplies

00:24:31.480 people's words and actions. And so you think that she's everywhere. Well, she could have just been

00:24:36.760 one place one time one month ago but you keep seeing the clips and so you think she's everywhere

00:24:41.720 you don't know where she is you don't know where her kids are you have no clue so i actually think

00:24:46.760 the right thing to do is just to pray for her pray for her kids trust that she loves her kids

00:24:51.960 way more than you do she knows what's best for them way more than you do her kids were

00:24:56.700 entrusted to her not you um so that's like that's my take on that it really shouldn't be that crazy

00:25:03.260 I'm just asking for some sanity and for some rationality.

00:25:06.560 I'm not even asking for us to all agree, but I'm asking for some humanity here, right?

00:25:11.760 And I've just been super disappointed in some people who used to be in my audience,

00:25:17.640 who have just become so merciless when it comes to this woman.

00:25:22.720 And those are the people who will point to me and be like, you've changed.

00:25:27.020 Girlie, I have not changed.

00:25:28.860 I have not changed.

00:25:30.340 Look at who you listen to.

00:25:31.780 look at what you think about look at what you dwell on and ask yourself honestly if you have

00:25:37.000 peace i'm the same you can go back and listen to the first episode that i ever put out and you'll

00:25:41.980 be like oh yeah she talks about the same things same person um so yeah i'm just this is like a

00:25:49.180 huge indication of just very dark spiritual sickness and it grieves me i'm really praying

00:25:54.400 about it um speaking of something else that is really throwing me off and making me sad but we

00:25:59.820 really need to talk about. We need to talk about this D-Trans influencer, someone who called

00:26:04.160 himself a D-Trans influencer. He went by Nisa Powers. His name is Thomas. Now he's saying he's

00:26:08.660 retransitioning. And this person got a lot of Christians to follow him and to support him.

00:26:15.680 And I want to be gracious when I talk about this, but I also want to be super, super clear

00:26:19.120 and talking to Christians about like, how do we discern this? How should we treat something 0.66

00:26:23.360 like this when it seems like maybe we were duped? Maybe this was actually just a play to get

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00:27:36.340 by Niza Powers, but his original name is Thomas. So we'll say Thomas because Niza is not a man's 0.83

00:27:42.800 name and he is a man. So Thomas Powers, he was a former trans identifying man. We don't say trans

00:27:49.540 woman on here, trans man on here because it's not possible to transition. It's not possible for a 0.99

00:27:53.680 man to become a woman, vice versa. So if you're new here, that's what we say. Man who believed 0.96

00:27:57.380 he was a woman. He gained a big social media platform in the last year because he documented

00:28:01.540 his faith journey. And he would mark the number of days since he had become a Christian. This is

00:28:07.740 one of the videos that was really popular on his Instagram site too. Yesterday at church,

00:28:12.780 people were telling me she this and her this. And I said, hold on, let's pump the brakes. I'm a man.

00:28:18.460 I am a son of the highest. My name is Ebenezer. How are you? He showed me that that was deliverance

00:28:25.100 and he continues to lead me to scripture like Samuel 16, 7, where people will look at the

00:28:31.660 outward appearance, but the Lord looks at your heart. Okay. So lots and lots and lots of videos

00:28:37.680 like this, lots of Christians supporting him. I do not blame Christians for following this journey

00:28:42.680 and supporting him and wanting to give him encouragement. That is what we should do.

00:28:46.680 I will say that when I have gotten many, many requests over the past year, many, probably

00:28:52.240 thousands, but definitely in the hundreds of people being like, please have this person 1.00

00:28:57.920 on because I have lots of detransitioners on. 0.99

00:29:00.040 I love stories of people who have left darkness and come into light because of Christ.

00:29:04.700 Every time I would watch his videos, there would just be the signal that would go off.

00:29:09.720 And I just knew I had this intense hesitation and I just kept on hearing, no, no, no, I'm

00:29:16.480 not saying an audible voice of God. I just kept on feeling like this person, I don't know. I just

00:29:23.740 don't know. And I'm not ready to platform them. And by the way, I don't have a perfect track

00:29:28.860 record of that. There have been people that I've had on that I thought we researched. I thought

00:29:32.860 we vetted. I thought we're genuine. I have them on and their story of conversion is not, it's,

00:29:39.720 I don't know how to describe it, but there were some after interviews questions about the sincerity

00:29:48.720 of their faith and whether it was a real conversion experience, whether the Holy Spirit was bearing

00:29:54.080 fruit in their life. We're not looking for perfection, but we are looking for fruit of

00:29:58.080 repentance. And so I now, because of that, am extremely careful and extremely hesitant. I need

00:30:04.740 to see some solid evidence of consistent fruit and repentance in that person's life. And I just,

00:30:12.540 I wasn't sure. It just seemed a little bit strange to me. It almost seemed like a character that was

00:30:17.840 being played. And I wrestled with this because I'm like, am I just being judgmental? Am I just

00:30:23.380 being judgmental? I know the episode would do well. And that also goes to show you that I don't

00:30:28.320 just pick topics that I think are going to perform well, that I think people are going to click on.

00:30:31.780 because if I did, I would definitely have this person on because everyone was asking me. But I

00:30:36.860 was like, I just can't in good conscience platform this right now. It's just the story is not ready.

00:30:42.440 So he then posted just yesterday a reel on his Instagram saying that he is now going back to

00:30:52.720 being a woman, so-called. I have a hard time understanding how what I look like and what I

00:31:00.700 wear is a sin in the eyes of God. I don't think it is. I think that me following the greatest

00:31:09.240 commandment to love the Lord with all of your heart is more important. I think that God looks

00:31:15.180 at the heart while people look at the outward. I believe in the holy scriptures. I believe

00:31:22.560 in the lord jesus my heart is better to serve him without hating myself my heart is better as a

00:31:33.200 partner to charlotte without hating my existence enforcing an identity on myself and my heart is

00:31:42.460 better to serve my community this way. I couldn't hate myself any longer.

00:31:52.100 Okay, so now this person is saying that he's going back to being a woman. Now, 0.96

00:31:56.480 something that was immediately sketchy to me about this is that he is using something called

00:32:00.740 trial reels. So this in itself is not a sketchy feature on Instagram, but I think it's sketchy

00:32:06.940 how this is being utilized by him. Trial reels, like if I wanted to put out a clip from my podcast,

00:32:13.660 but I wanted to see how it would perform with people who don't follow me. I could put it out

00:32:19.340 and I could select that I only want this to be seen by people who don't follow me just to see

00:32:24.760 how it performs. That is what he did with this reel. So if you follow him, you couldn't see it.

00:32:31.280 This is only going to people who are non-followers. He did not announce to his followers, at least at the time, that he was re-transitioning so-called. So that to me tells me that he is putting out two different narratives. I don't know why. I'm not going to speculate about the intention there, but it doesn't seem like a good intention.

00:32:52.240 Okay, so over the past year, he has become extremely popular, documenting the days that he has become a Christian.

00:33:00.360 He's been on a lot of Christian podcasts, and I understand why people would want to platform this story.

00:33:05.760 I'm not saying that those people, you know, that they were, of course, not intentionally doing something wrong.

00:33:11.720 It's an interesting testimony, but that is how he rose to fame.

00:33:15.520 You got a lot of Christian podcasters giving him credibility by sharing his story, even though there's a lot of odd things. 0.98

00:33:21.820 If you are someone who is truly detransitioned, why go by Niza? Niza is not a man's name. 0.80

00:33:27.620 And there was also just, you know, continuing to have the long hair, continuing to sometimes wear

00:33:33.000 feminine clothing. Sanctification is a process. I'm not saying that it has to be overnight,

00:33:37.780 but there are some questions. After some time, people started noticing some inconsistencies

00:33:44.100 in his story, like his transitioning timeline, his relationship with his girlfriend, even his age.

00:33:50.020 Um, some people pointed out that he says that he's in his twenties and really he's 36. They did this based on when it seems like from previous pictures that he was, um, graduating from high school and college.

00:34:04.100 Also, we have pictures from example, for example, from like 2016, where he is, he looks like a man, he doesn't look like he has transitioned. And yet, Thomas claims that he has been living as a woman for many, many years. And then he also seems to have lied about the length of his, the length of his relationships at six.

00:34:28.240 Charlotte and I met over five years ago and fell in love while I was still Nicole.

00:34:36.060 When he came to me and said that he had found Jesus on a hike, it shocked me a lot.

00:34:49.120 And I truly became a new creation in Christ. I was born again. She didn't know this man.

00:34:55.700 I didn't she didn't fall in love with this man and you were a completely different person and we had to date all over again

00:35:03.200 okay so this woman claims that she's a lesbian the problem is that he had previously claimed

00:35:10.440 that he and his girlfriend started dating after he detransitioned um when actuality it seems like

00:35:18.660 they were living together for five years as a lesbian couple. Now, lesbian, quote unquote,

00:35:25.760 we don't actually know what is really true. Let me read you this report from Protestia.

00:35:31.460 And Protestia is an outlet that I can't recommend overall, but they did do a lot to document this

00:35:37.760 particular story. And I thought this was interesting. And I didn't even share this back

00:35:42.680 when it was originally reported back in February, because I was like, okay, obviously this person

00:35:48.160 has an issue with lying, but maybe there's going to be repentance there. But now that he has said

00:35:52.500 that he's going to identify as a woman again, I just think it's really important that we know

00:35:56.480 that the story that he has been telling does not actually seem to be true. So according to

00:36:00.840 Protestia, for the last eight months, Powers has gone by the name Ebenezer, which he has shortened

00:36:05.560 to Niza. He asserts that this new name Ebenezer was given to him by God. He continues to use the

00:36:11.800 nickname, Niza. But they point out, they looked at records from the Tampa Bay Times, and they found

00:36:21.080 that his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Powers, they had a boy that they named Thomas Ryan on June 12,

00:36:30.080 1989. Now, Thomas has been saying that he is 28 years old, but he's not. He's actually that he

00:36:40.240 was born in 1996, but he is actually, so that would make him like 30 years old, but he is

00:36:46.920 actually 36 years old. They also found on this report also found pictures of Niza, of Thomas as

00:36:53.900 a baby. And this image does not look like 1996, by the way, this definitely looks like an 80s

00:37:01.420 family. He also claims that he had begun transitioning in his teens, taking puberty

00:37:07.840 blockers, shopping for bras, socially transitioning. But they found pictures of him

00:37:12.240 when he was a teenager. And I'll show some of those pictures. This would have been

00:37:17.260 in 2006. Totally just a boy, a little bit older than that. It looks like he's in his 20s,

00:37:27.320 completely a boy, definitely not someone on cross-sex hormones, definitely not someone

00:37:31.940 who went on puberty blockers. This looks like a graduation. He reportedly went to Florida State

00:37:38.620 University. He didn't transition in college. This is a person who is a man. That's Thomas in 2015.

00:37:47.340 And then this is a year after graduating Florida State University on Instagram. So 2015,

00:37:55.620 this is what Thomas looked like. Again, totally a man, not wearing woman's clothing, 1.00

00:38:00.780 doesn't have long hair. Another picture of him around this time, another picture from 2015.

00:38:11.440 Another picture in 2016. Again, a man. Another picture from 2017. Again, a man. Five o'clock

00:38:20.840 shadow. And so this person who claims to be a different age and also claims to have transitioned

00:38:28.380 as a teenager, we have picture documentation showing that he did not transition as a teenager.

00:38:35.480 So what is the purpose behind this? What's the truth about his relationship? What's the truth

00:38:41.480 about the woman that he's with? I don't know. We'll get into a little bit more of that speculation

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00:39:50.040 involves concernedwomen.org. Okay, so now that he has come out and said, okay, I am no longer going

00:40:03.460 to pretend to be a man, or in his words, I am now going to live authentically as a woman. You've got

00:40:11.060 people who call themselves queer Christians standing up for him and saying, yes, we need to

00:40:16.300 support this person being the woman that God has called him to be? Because unfortunately,

00:40:21.180 a lot of people in the so-called LGBTQ community are for authenticity as long as it means being 0.86

00:40:28.580 gay or trans. But if someone says, no, I'm living authentically by being the woman or being the man

00:40:34.500 that God actually made me to be, they end up losing support. A lot of true detransitioners 1.00

00:40:39.480 are absolutely met with complete hostility by trans identifying people, by LGBTQ people,

00:40:47.940 because they don't want to be delegitimized by a detransitioner. And so you'll get things like

00:40:53.740 this. If you are a queer Christian or a Christian who believes and loves queer people,

00:40:59.680 I need you to listen right now. This is my friend Niza Powers. Her presence online has been sharing

00:41:05.140 her journey as a new Christian. And because of that, her content has gained traction among

00:41:09.540 conservative and fundamentalist Christians. When she became a Christian, she detransitioned because

00:41:14.240 she felt like it was her only option. But now she is out and ready to be the woman that God

00:41:18.240 created her to be. She is dealing with unfathomable hate and vitriol because of this choice.

00:41:25.340 Okay, there is no hate or vitriol that I have seen towards him. And people saying that they're

00:41:33.680 saddened by this, people trying to urge him to repentance, people calling him out for his lies

00:41:39.400 is not hatred. It's not vitriol. I'm not saying that there are no people out there like that.

00:41:43.440 There probably are, and you shouldn't be one of those people, obviously. But it is absolutely

00:41:49.180 legitimate and right and loving for us to say, dude, you're going the wrong direction. I don't

00:41:54.900 even know if this person really thinks that he is a woman or what he's trying to do. I think that

00:41:59.960 obviously something is going on there that's wrong and it's evil and perhaps unstable. 0.98

00:42:05.980 To me, the bigger issue seems to be that he is a pathological liar and that he has created a 0.78

00:42:12.220 character to gain a following and he has been very successful at it. And that is a very difficult 0.79

00:42:19.440 temptation to resist. And so I think that he is sowing confusion here in trying to seek affirmation

00:42:27.360 and gain attention. That is my guess. Now, that does not decrease my compassion for this person

00:42:33.380 because lost is lost. You're lost whether you're a man who thinks that you're a woman. You are lost

00:42:39.180 if you are a person that is basically a scam artist. So whatever is going on here, like he is

00:42:45.440 in the grips of the prince of the power of the air, of Satan, among whom we all once walked in

00:42:50.260 the passions of our flesh, as Ephesians 2 says. And so the response is the same, that we pray for

00:42:55.140 him. I also thought it was strange the whole time that he was going to all these different churches

00:42:59.480 and then he was finally going to get confirmed in the Catholic Church. But he also seemed kind

00:43:05.360 of wishy-washy about that. And you know, it is interesting, like you guys know I'm a strong

00:43:10.240 Protestant and I've got my criticisms of Catholic doctrine, but I saw actually a lot of evangelicals

00:43:15.860 criticizing the Catholic priest who told Thomas, hey, I don't think you're ready to

00:43:21.800 be a part of this church. People are like, oh, that's so sad. That's so legalistic.

00:43:26.940 I actually think props to the priest. Props to the priest who did that, because the priest

00:43:31.540 had discernment, was like, we're not there yet. And honestly, I don't think that priest was saying

00:43:36.120 you can never be a Christian and you're too gone for God's grace, but probably like, hey,

00:43:41.860 we need to kind of suss this out and see the sincerity of your conversion and of your desire 0.93

00:43:47.780 to become Catholic. I actually think that's fair coming from a non-Catholic there. The bigger 0.99

00:43:53.780 problem, though, is that this person doesn't know and understand the gospel. This person clearly

00:43:58.020 hasn't repented. There's something very deep and spiritual going on there, and we should absolutely

00:44:03.240 pray for him. And I do just want to give a word of caution when it comes to sharing the testimonies

00:44:09.220 of people. I don't want us to become the older brother in the prodigal son story that we're

00:44:13.840 always looking for a reason to be skeptical. I don't like that. Look, when Kanye West claimed

00:44:19.560 to become a Christian and he made that gospel album, which is still amazing, by the way,

00:44:24.180 like I was excited. I celebrated that, not because I knew for sure that the conversion was

00:44:29.680 real and that he would now become some missionary and that he would stop all the degeneracy.

00:44:35.500 Obviously, that's not what happened, but because the power of God is being proclaimed and he was

00:44:41.120 putting out these theologically solid worship songs. And I do think that touched people's

00:44:45.980 lives and that God can use anything, including that, to draw people to Christ. And I celebrated

00:44:51.760 that. I think that's how we have to feel when it comes to these people sharing testimonies.

00:44:56.760 Lily Phillips, she's the OnlyFans person who said that she got baptized, became a Christian.

00:45:02.600 Super skeptical of that because she also at the same time was like, yeah, I'm not going to stop

00:45:06.160 doing what I'm doing. And that to me is the absence of the Holy Spirit. Sanctification is

00:45:11.300 gradual. That happens by the Holy Spirit over time. But justification is something that happens

00:45:16.100 at once by grace through faith in Christ. We believe he saves us. But that conviction starts

00:45:20.600 right away. Not everything, but the old has passed, the new has come. We become new creations.

00:45:26.380 And so there is this hatred of sin that builds and builds and builds. We're not going to know

00:45:32.080 everything all at once. We're not going to become perfect all at once. But there is a conviction of

00:45:37.800 sin and understanding that my old self, the old ways of what I'm doing has to change. Remember,

00:45:43.880 we had Brittany DeLaMora on, and she used to be an adult film star, and then she became a Christian.

00:45:49.140 Yes, it took some time for her to have conviction, but when she read the story of Jezebel and she

00:45:53.380 saw, that's me, I can't do that. It wasn't like she was like, okay, that's me, and now I'm going

00:45:59.960 to continue pornography for 15 years. She knew, even as a new Christian, that God was telling her 0.63

00:46:06.020 this is not okay. You've got to change what you're doing. So I think we don't want to be

00:46:12.620 cynics, okay? And we don't want to be complete and total skeptics. We want to celebrate when

00:46:17.960 someone is curious about God. We want to meet them with kindness. Romans 2 tells us that God's

00:46:21.660 kindness leads us towards repentance, okay? And that's true of everyone. So we need to be excited

00:46:25.900 about that while also hesitating before platforming that person, telling everyone to follow them,

00:46:32.000 looking to that person as a moral example or as a theological teacher. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We got to

00:46:37.980 slow our roll there, okay? We got to back up a little bit. And those of us who have a platform,

00:46:43.320 I'm not saying this from a place of perfection. We have to be so careful about the stories that

00:46:47.760 we curate, that we give to people. I have learned that the hard way, okay? We just have to be really

00:46:52.800 careful because we do have a sense of responsibility for the stories that our audience hears. You've

00:46:58.900 got a lot of vulnerable people listening to you and watching you. And you can't be perfect. You

00:47:03.200 have to rely on the wisdom for the Holy Spirit, but make sure that you are relying on the wisdom

00:47:07.500 from the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit is not encouraging you to have a guest on just

00:47:12.900 because you think it's going to perform well. The Holy Spirit is love and truth. And so that

00:47:19.340 might mean not having a person on that you know is going to get a lot of views because you're not

00:47:24.360 sure about the genuineness of their conversion. That's tough, but it's worth it over time. Like

00:47:30.600 we've got souls who are watching us and like what we say and what we platform really matters. So

00:47:35.020 let's pray for him. Let's pray for the fullness of repentance. And let's just pray that

00:47:39.900 the Lord would relieve him of the burden of lies. Like you shall know the truth and the truth will

00:47:45.680 set you free, Thomas Powers. The truth will set you free. And Jesus in John 14, 6 says that he is

00:47:52.300 the way, the truth and the life that no one comes to the father except through him. Like you can just

00:47:56.960 bear your soul to God. You can be who you really are. You can take off the costume. You can forego

00:48:03.360 the character. You can lose all of the followers because what does it benefit you to gain the whole

00:48:08.580 world, to gain all of Instagram, to gain all of TikTok, to gain all of the podcasters, but lose

00:48:12.800 your soul. It gains you nothing. It gains you nothing. And that is true for all of us, not just

00:48:18.280 for Thomas Powers. So I feel for him. All of us have been in deceit at some point, and you got

00:48:28.060 to be relieved from it. It's a really good feeling. It's a really good feeling to be relieved from

00:48:32.920 lies. All right. We've got some lifestyle pitter-patter. That's my new theme song. Was it

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00:51:08.440 Okay, I just wanted to talk about this really sad trend that's going on.

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00:51:17.540 that they actually want their sons to become gay. 0.80

00:51:20.900 So a pregnant mother, and we're just going to post the voiceover for copyright reasons 0.55

00:51:25.800 we can't actually play the song that she's playing but she is this is a pregnant mother 0.96

00:51:31.200 she's got a pregnant belly and she's playing a song abba for her son and she's like oh i want 0.95

00:51:38.420 to make my son gay um i'm gonna raise my son a little gay and play him abby abba and she's 0.86

00:51:46.420 playing gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight all right the comments are saying things like 0.98

00:51:52.280 this. My son is four and exclusively listens to Sabrina Carpenter. Hopes are very high for him

00:51:57.040 being gay. My son just officially came out a few months ago. Cheering emoji. My son was born to

00:52:04.420 Dancing Queen. I have high hopes for him. My son skips during basketball. He's the sweetest. Hoping

00:52:11.200 for you moms. My four-year-old son's favorite color is rainbow. My son loves the new Lady Gaga

00:52:16.820 he's only one and a half, but I have high hopes. Okay. This is disgusting that you are thinking

00:52:23.940 about your child's sexuality. Okay. That's weird. That's weird. Just know that, that you're weird. 0.99

00:52:30.460 You've read too many Glennon Doyle and Colleen Hoover books and your brain is fried and you

00:52:36.960 don't any longer have a grasp on reality. Like I would be okay if you just never thought about

00:52:43.360 your child's sexuality, but the fact that you're thinking and not just thinking, but hoping that 0.76

00:52:48.280 they turn out gay, for what reason? What a horrible thing. I'm sorry, but it's a horrible 0.99

00:52:52.540 thing to wish on someone. It is. Now, I'm a Christian and I believe that homosexuality is a

00:52:57.380 sin, okay? But I also think that it's bad for society to encourage this kind of thing, that we 1.00

00:53:03.220 should be encouraging our boys to be strong and to be brave and to be protectors and to be fighters

00:53:09.240 and to rein their masculine energy into good things.

00:53:15.700 Yes, and you can call that old-fashioned, but it's true.

00:53:18.560 It's actually just by nature that boys and girls are different.

00:53:22.160 Now, it's okay if a boy skips in basketball.

00:53:25.880 Like, it's okay if they're little and they like the beat to a certain song.

00:53:30.400 I'm not saying that we need to shame that or all boys have to like the same things

00:53:34.200 and have the same hobbies and have the same personality, interests, all of that.

00:53:38.680 I think that's okay. But for us to push boys toward a femininity and feminism, but femininity, 0.59

00:53:46.080 like that is a part of conversion therapy, if you will, that I find very, very grotesque.

00:53:55.700 And I talk about this concept of what I call toxic mommy culture in my book,

00:53:59.960 you're not enough and that's okay when moms make their feelings and their validation and their 0.99

00:54:08.300 social image the highest priority and they project that onto their kids and they use their children 0.99

00:54:13.400 as props to perform this like progressivism on social media for likes affirmation cultural 1.00

00:54:19.480 approval there's also a part of toxic mommy culture that like women glorify hating motherhood 1.00

00:54:24.640 and not liking their kids. 1.00

00:54:26.320 I think that's gross too.

00:54:29.380 It's also, I'm sorry,

00:54:30.700 but it's a part of this hyper gentle,

00:54:32.720 permissive parenting

00:54:33.660 where you don't have boundaries.

00:54:35.580 You don't have any direction for your child.

00:54:37.800 You don't have any discipline for your child.

00:54:39.380 You don't guide them in truth.

00:54:40.440 You don't teach them about objective truth.

00:54:42.180 You don't teach them about objective morality

00:54:44.160 and you just want them to become like the world.

00:54:47.140 It's so unhealthy

00:54:48.540 and I just wish that we could allow boys to be boys.

00:54:52.360 Like being a boy is not some disease. You've got people like Jen Newsome up there being like, oh, I changed the protagonist in stories that I read to my sons to women. I make my sons play with dolls so they know that men are also caretakers. That's just weird. Like I have a ton of nephews. I've got girls and then I have a ton of nephews and my girls turn everything into a family. You got three forks. It's mommy, daddy, baby fork. My nephews, everything becomes a gun.

00:55:22.360 Okay. And I don't chastise that because boys and girls are just different. And with girls,

00:55:28.520 I say girls, mostly it's relationship management from a very early age. Like even when they're

00:55:34.600 young, but into teenagers, it's relationship management. Boys, injury management. Okay.

00:55:40.240 Injury management, parenting boys, relationship management, parenting girls. These distinctions

00:55:45.420 are good. And that's not to say that all girls and boys are the same, but like, this is the

00:55:51.140 beauty of the distinctions of genders that complement each other, and we should be affirming

00:55:55.240 that. And I just find this little thing that this mother is doing gross, gross. Kids are always the 0.96

00:56:02.720 unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments. It's not good. Okay, let me pause.

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00:57:08.500 Okay, I just wanted to end the show quickly.

00:57:11.420 I just wanted to play this clip of President Trump.

00:57:13.440 He delivered some remarks at the White House at the welcome ceremony for King Charles and

00:57:16.960 Queen Camilla.

00:57:17.620 and it was a good ceremony.

00:57:20.200 He had a really good speech

00:57:21.360 and he called it a day of diplomacy

00:57:24.180 in Washington designed to emphasize the bond

00:57:26.360 between the United Kingdom and the United States

00:57:28.620 that is so strong it can withstand

00:57:30.220 the political turmoil of the moment.

00:57:32.380 And we hope that to be true,

00:57:33.740 although the UK has abandoned a lot of the values

00:57:36.400 that have held America and the UK together.

00:57:39.700 This is a celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

00:57:43.460 Lots of funny pictures came out of this.

00:57:45.300 trump holding a b and melania and camilla and charles looking at him like what are you doing

00:57:51.420 this like that is an analogy for so many things when it comes to trump he really is like unflappable

00:57:57.380 in so many ways but in his welcome speech trump highlighted the shared values and history between

00:58:03.120 the u.s and the uk and i just really like this part side long before americans had a nation or

00:58:09.100 a constitution we first had a culture a character and a creed before we ever proclaimed our

00:58:17.280 independence americans carried within us the rarest of gifts moral courage and it came from

00:58:25.080 a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea so good um yeah so many good parts about our

00:58:33.540 relationship, even though there was a divorce a couple centuries ago. But the fact that we

00:58:41.900 had that revolution and we had that fissure, and then we were still able to be allies through so

00:58:48.240 much turmoil and allies for good is really amazing. And it speaks to a shared Christian,

00:58:53.960 distinctly Christian heritage. And as we lose that, we can expect the alliances that we've 0.97

00:58:59.180 relied on for a long time to fizzle and to frazzle. King Charles actually said something

00:59:05.100 in his speech about the Christian heritage of England. And I'm like, okay, we, I heard you say

00:59:11.720 England, not Englandistan. Okay. And so we're going to have to be a little bit clearer about

00:59:16.840 that because I'm not so sure that the message is being conveyed in jolly old England about our

00:59:23.520 Christian heritage. We got the same problem here and the United States though, but it's true. We 1.00

00:59:28.000 got a Christian foundation. When you lose the Christian foundation, you lose all of the good 1.00

00:59:31.680 things that came with that Christianity, innate human rights. We are made in the image of God,

00:59:36.980 and therefore we were given by our creator inalienable rights, among them being life,

00:59:41.120 liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's not an agnostic idea. It's not an atheistic idea.

00:59:45.020 That is not a Buddhist idea. It's not an Islamic idea. It's a Christian idea. And when you lose

00:59:50.020 Christianity, you lose all the good stuff that came with it. I want England to know that. I want 1.00

00:59:54.300 America to know that. We need a reawakening. And as I said in the beginning, we got a gospel

00:59:59.740 literacy problem. So Christians, know your gospel, know your Bible, and share it with others. The

01:00:05.900 West depends on it. And of course, much bigger than that, souls depend on it. All right, that's

01:00:10.960 all we got time for today. We'll be back here on Friday.

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