Mexican YouTuber Samuel Adrián has just been released after a 10-day detention in Bogotá; he had been held for refusing to delete information regarding the impact of “transitioning” on the health of minors — content featured in his influential and politically incorrect documentary, “Colombia: Factory of Trans Children.”

On December 5, 2025, a court in Cali issued a notice ordering the communicator to remove clips from the film in which Dr. Mario Angulo of the Fundación Valle del Lili clinic discussed these dangers.

However, because Adrián refused to back down, he was arrested by the Colombian National Police at El Dorado Airport on Sunday, September 13.

Liliana Castañeda, an advisor to the Colombian Congress, revealed for this article that the documentarian had been invited to the South American country to give a lecture on Tuesday the 15th and to accompany several politicians that morning for the “formal submission of a bill seeking to ban gender ideology in Colombian schools.”

Adrián’s arrest demonstrated once again that gender ideology — despite its rhetoric of colorful diversity — actually operates in an authoritarian manner against those who dissent. Yet, the incident also had a significant public impact, as evidenced by recent statements from Hispanic-American authorities.

On the very day of the arrest, the newly inaugurated Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella stated that the detention of Adrián — following his exposure of hormonal treatments for the so-called “sex change” in minors and his warnings about potential irreversible consequences — should “spark a national debate.”

De la Espriella called upon Congress: “The time has come to legislate regarding the limits and prohibitions of these procedures on minors. Interpretations concerning the free development of personality and progressive autonomy have left gaps that must be addressed through legislation, always upholding the constitutional principle of the primacy of children’s rights. We cannot continue to leave these decisions solely in the hands of court injunctions, administrative protocols, and judicial precedents.”

“The ‘Miracle Nation’ begins by defending our children, their families, and parental authority,” he concluded. “In my administration, children are sacred.”

If, as Tertullian wrote in the second century A.D., the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, then persecution against the righteous — through the genuine admiration it inspires in those around them — opens up possibilities for change.

Another Colombian woman who raised her voice was former Senator María Fernanda Cabal. She posted on X: “Reporting potential abuse against minors demands investigation, not silencing. Justice must protect rights, not shield anyone from scrutiny!”

In Peru, Senator Milagros Aguayo echoed that message. “Protecting childhood and freedom of expression are principles we must defend, always with respect for the law and due process,” she noted. “Ideas should be met with arguments, not by silencing debate.”

Agustín Laje, an Argentine political scientist and a philosophical father of the “New Right” gaining ground in Latin America, described Samuel Adrián’s arrest as “extremely serious.”

Since its YouTube premiere on May 17, 2026, “Colombia: Factory of Trans Children” has garnered over 3.2 million views. It has fueled public debate in the South American nation regarding human nature, new totalitarian-style ideologies, the advancement of the trans agenda concerning minors, and the cultural, medical, and social consequences for future generations.

For Samuel Adrián, the film allowed many people to learn — for the first time — about something that had been happening for years far from public scrutiny. “From infertility, bone loss, and other impacts on physical development, to the pressure exerted on many parents to have their children undergo transition — by implying that if they didn’t proceed, the children would risk becoming depressed and taking their own lives,” he listed.

When I asked him a few months ago about the film’s impact, he recalled that after the promotion of gender transition for minors was exposed, the Valle del Lili Foundation’s gender clinic “was dropped from the list of services offered, and the doctor leading it, Mario Angulo, could no longer perform procedures on minors within that program.”

The victory, he said, “demonstrates that when people get informed, speak out, and refuse to remain silent, things can change.”