Detransition discusses life after living as a woman in the new book

A man who lived as a woman for years believes that those who fight their gender must address the basic issues that drive them to question their identity so that they can “embrace” those who God made them be.

Walt Heyer, 84, Detransition 40 years ago after being identified as a woman for eight years. Heyer runs a minister and online called “sex change sex”, where he says he has helped thousands of people repent by trying to change their gender.

Heyer and Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, Director of the Family Studies Center at the Family Research Council, spoke to Fox News Digital about their new book, “Embracing the master model“Which addresses the” spiritual and psychological crisis after transgender identity “.

The book details the main players in the history of transgender movement and argues that left -wing activism has affected the diagnostic and ethical standards in the field of counseling and has damaged patient care over the past two decades. The authors argue that the discovery of the root causes of gender confusion is essential for treatment. They also give advice on how friends and family can help those who fight their gender identity.

Bauwens, a former therapist and trauma scholar, claims that a large number of people who experience gender confusion were also abused, neglected or had other unfavorable experiences in their childhood.

Professional counseling standards have changed over the years and now pressure to assert one’s gender identity as part of treatment, she said, adding that this does not address the patient’s trauma.

“When you look at the data, about half of those identified as transgender also report some kind of abuse, whether emotional, psychological, physical, sexual abuse,” Bauwens Fox News Digital told.

“In fact it’s not just abuse, it is criminal border to treat someone with a surgical procedure that clearly matches the profile of someone who has had really severe abuse,” she said. “Some of the reasons used to receive quick care to confirm people’s gender,” such as suicide, this is a very common experience of someone who has had abuse. Self-harming is a very common experience of someone who is abused. “

Heyer’s story of gender confusion began at a young age with family members who abused him.

“I was wearing on the cross by my grandmother secretly and she was affirming me. She made me a purple dress of the Byrnjyk evening and that was a secret for about two and a half years,” he explained. “When I decided to take the purple dress at home and my parents found it, and they realized that my grandmother was wearing a cross, and I was enjoying her as a four or five -year -old boy, then the heavy discipline started with my father.

Heyer began to be identified as a female as a teenager and became alcoholic in his 20s while dealing with grief from his father who died of cancer. He began taking inter-section hormones and was eventually diagnosed with gender dysphoria in his 40s and underwent sex change surgery to live as “Laura Jensen” for eight years.

He said his therapist “did not mind that I would have sexually, physically and emotionally abusing the problem, and it was not the gender dysphorus.”

“I’ve worked with thousands of people over the past 20 years. And when I work with them, I always ask them, what has it done you don’t like who you are?” Heyer said about his service. “When they dive into this discussion, they give up the issues, and we look back, and discover that they were sexually abused and emotionally abused, physically abused. They were in custody.”

“There has been something that made them dislike who they are. Not even gender issues. That is why Jennifer referred it as an identity issue. They like to say it is a gender issue because then you can apply hormones to surgery, but that does not fix the problem.”

Heyer credits the Lord to “redeem and restore his life”, as well as some Christian counselors who helped him to be discreet, address his gender issues, and return his life.

Christian authors believe that the modern gender movement is a spiritual battle that must be taken seriously by the people of faith.

“Gender movement is not just about deleting male or female. In fact it is about deleting the image of God and family, because the family is the first place we learn security, security and has attributes of male and female that God has uniquely embedded in our DNA, in our design,” Bauwens said. “And when you delete them or try to delete them, you are deleting an aspect of the heart and nature of God.”

“We look at our young people in our world, especially our country now, and many people are saying,” Why is there such a mental health crisis? “If we could be divided into this current issue from the very mental health crisis we are trying to fix,” she continued.

“When you delete the model of God, in one generation or try to do it, then we have left with people who have no identity, no wheel, it makes no sense that it has a higher purpose in life, that it makes sense through the relationship and how God made us … so I would argue that there is much more in the battle we are facing.