Transsexual Regrets Decision

Walt Heyer believes that no one can really change their gender. He tried to change from a man to a woman and realized it did not solve his heart issues. He had a rough childhood filled with neglect and abuse from his family. This made him wonder if he would be treated better if he was a girl. To me it seems like he was transitioning because of physiological and emotional abuse, not because he honestly felt like he was born in the wrong body.

As a teenager he took the female name Andrea West and began cross dressing. He says that he struggled against the feeling to be a women, but the feelings were something he could not turn off. He explained his sexuality, "I wasn't homosexual. I was having dates with girls, I never felt any desire to have relationships with men, so from the standpoint of my sexuality I was always heterosexual."

"That I think, too, is one of the...misleading factors. Most people consider transgenders to be homosexual and, from my experience...98 to 99 percent of the people who contact me are not homosexual...It's really a gender identity issue, not a sexual preference issue."

I think this is a great point he brings up. Just like Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, he talks about how his issue was not a sexual preference issue, but a identity issue. It is interesting to me that for both of them they had an identity issue when their identity was not in Christ. 

In the midst of his transition, he got married and had two children.

"But the difficulty that I faced was that I couldn't shut the thoughts or the feelings off," he said.

His identity issue was not fixed, even when he was living as a women. He still felt a void. He still felt something missing. He turned to alcohol and his life fell apart. He wife left him and he lost his job. But he kept making physical changes hoping it would fix things. He got breast implants, began taking hormones, had electrolysis to reduce the hair on his face, and he had his genitals removed. He gave himself the name Laura and lived like this for 8 years.

Then two things happened. He began studying psychology and experienced the love of Jesus. He said he learned that a person can't actually change genders and that he was delusional.
He explained that by saying, "You're not born transgender, something happens in your childhood that causes you to not want to be who you are...And today the only thing that is...socially acceptable is calling yourself a transgender."

He said that while he was Laura he believed in Jesus, but struggled to be accepted by the church. He did not have a personal relationship with him before, but he thought he existed. There is a big difference, and that difference is head verses heart knowledge. At some point he said he found a church that welcomed him and loved him. The pastor of that church told him, "Our job is to love you and it's God's job to transform you."


"The church, what it did for me was it allowed me to really get to the point where I asked the Lord for forgiveness. I began to pray for forgiveness. And I realized that the critical point is understanding that you can accept Jesus Christ, but there's a point where that doesn't become real...until you're walking with Christ," he said.

"Because the real truth that Christ is alive is the fact that you see a transformed life. And so what happened in my life is that when I finally... got down on my knees and was working through these things many years after I had accepted Christ – probably 10 to 15 years after I accepted Christ – I finally felt that I was broken enough as a man that I got on my knees and prayed."

Now Heyer says he no longer struggles with his gender identity, is married again, and found happiness in the gender God created him to be.


Original Article http://www.christianpost.com/news/transsexual-returns-to-original-gender-after-relationship-with-christ-66932/