In 1981 at 40 years of age, I was diagnosed as suffering from “gender anxiety” by a world-leading female therapist, Dr. Paul Walker.
Sitting across from Dr. Walker in his San Francisco Union St. company, I explained that when I was just 4 years older, I started cross-dressing in my grandmother’s garments at her house. To inspire me, she used her dress-making abilities to style a made-to-fit full-length colored chiffon evening gown for my 4-year-old system.
That colored chiffon dress reminded me more of a popular branding metal on the backs of ranch cattle than a sweet gift to a 4-year-old grandson. Although I haven’t been able to completely erase the memories of the colored dress, the damage it caused in my life inspires me to help stop another child, or even an grownup, from being exposed to cross-sex hormones and procedures.
I can forgive Dr. Walker for suggesting that I start receiving women hormone therapy right away in 1981, but I can’t accept the gender therapists who now rush to make a gender dysphoria diagnosis and administer cross-sex hormones without considering the underlying causes.
I can accept physician Dr. Stanley Biber for surgically altering me in 1983, a time when several people were talking about gender dysphoria, opposite-sex hormones, or cosmetic surgeries on chest or genitals. Given what we currently know, it is unimaginable for surgeons to now perform “gender therapies” as therapy.
Dysphoria Points to Another Factors
The findings of more recent research, such as the Cass Report, which was commissioned by the British National Health Service to conduct a thorough analysis of neonatal sex medicine, include that the causes of dysphoria go beyond just sex.
Dysphoria, the opposite of joy, is a condition associated with a multitude of unresolved issues and psychological conditions, such as:
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs ), including loss, abuse, neglect, family conflict, divorce, and addiction.
- Mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, body dysmorphia disorder, depressive disorder, and dementia.
The two types are interlinked. According to the CDC,” Dangerous tension from ACEs can alter brain development and change how the body reacts to stress. ACEs are linked to serious health issues, mental illness, and substance abuse in age”.
Talk therapy therapy and trauma therapy are used to rewire lingering memories and feelings from the past to address ACEs. Mental health conditions may listen to talk treatments and clinical trials. None of these problems are treated with cross-sex estrogen or surgery.
However, when treating people with “gender” anxiety, the treatment plan is turned on its head. Gender therapists follow “gender-affirming care”, a process that affirms a man in their sex distress and has one recommendation:” change” with cross-sex hormones and operation.
Jennifer Bauwens, Ph. Instead of involuntarily prescribing cross-sex estrogen and procedure, D. and I have written about the need for professionals to look into negative childhood experience and mental health conditions that contribute to the patient’s anxiety in developing treatment programs. Anyone considering hiring the services of a female doctor must violently challenge them on this level or seek the services of a stress therapist. Parents should be aware that 23 states forbid talk therapy for minors who identify as transgender, complicating the search for a doctor. There are additional parenting tips from Dr. Bauwens and me around.
Replacing Personal Language
We’ve discovered that the terminology used in the transgender website is difficult because it is qualitatively based on beliefs and feelings and is intended to defy the truth and advance the idea of “being transgender.”
Having dealt with the ins and outs of the transgender quest for over 80 years — undergoing so-called” sexual change surgery” 42 years ago and coming back to my inherent male identification at age 50 ( more on my story here ) — I have earned the right to question the use of words and phrases that deny natural reality, such as transgender, transitioned, detransitioned, and gender assigned at birth.
No one has ever been genetically altered to be a gender. People can say they are” transgender” and that they have” transitioned”, but the most they can accomplish is to identify as transgender, not become transgender. The change in appearance can be convincing, but truly” transitioning” is not achievable.
Likewise, the term “detransition” subtly distorts reality because it implies that” transition” happened. But because people can’t” transition” they cannot “detransition”. Instead, we can say they no longer identify as transgender.
No one determines our gender from birth. The Bible says God created man in His image,  , male and female He created them ( Genesis 1: 27 ). We are unalterably male or female at conception, with corresponding traits intricately woven into every cell in our body.
Keep Telling the Truth
We are much more knowledgeable than when I began this journey more than 40 years ago. Even the first transgender president of USPATH, a long-time transgender person, is raising awareness of the harm that medical professionals make when transitioning minors. And yet, all that has come to light, especially over the last 10 years, confirms my initial assessment. Effective treatment does not require cross-sex hormones and surgeries but non-medical therapy protocols, such as trauma therapy, addiction therapy, and interventions to counteract internet indoctrination and social contagion.
Walt Heyer is a skilled author and public speaker who enjoys mentoring people whose lives have been torn apart by unnecessary gender-change procedures.
