 This is the Wisconsin Family Minute. LifeSite News reports that a study released just days ago in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology found that stories about transgender children can manipulate children's innate gender essentialist beliefs, showing that indoctrination is deliberate and effective. Gender essentialism, according to the Oxford Reference Dictionary, is, quote, the belief that males and females are born with distinctive, different natures, determined biologically rather than culturally. Jelaine Appling.