Engage Arizona at SoConCon 25: Fighting Gender Ideology: Laura Hanford on Protecting Children

In this episode of Engage Arizona, host Bob Trent sits down with Laura Hanford of The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.Laura shares her powerful story—from working on international religious freedom to becoming a leading voice in protecting children from the harms of gender ideology. She and Bob discuss:How gender ideology spread through schools and medicineThe dangers of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minorsWhy parents are pressured with misleading suicide statisticsWhat the latest research from Europe reveals about the long-term outcomesHow the U.S. medical establishment and government have pushed ideology over evidenceThis conversation shines a light on what is really at stake and why protecting children must remain a top priority.