Action4Canada - A 'Redeemed' LGBTQ Daughter of God

00:00:00.000 I was so against Christianity.

00:00:02.100 Like, I can't even begin to describe how against I was.

00:00:04.380 But praise God that he pierced through my hard heart and the darkness that I was in.

00:00:08.000 And he did it through music.

00:00:09.880 And he did it through someone telling me it's about a relationship, not a religion.

00:00:14.000 And actually, the father of the child that I'd aborted, we kind of connected as friends.

00:00:18.140 And he had come to faith, so he was actually sharing the gospel with me.

00:00:21.500 And I was debating him.

00:00:22.820 I did not even want to hear it from him because I was just resistant to Christianity.

00:00:26.300 But he was persistent, and he was praying for me.

00:00:28.340 And I'm so thankful for that.

00:00:29.620 and we would have debates, but my heart was softening. And then I met someone playing

00:00:33.680 soccer in front of my house and he invited me to a, um, a youth group on a Friday. And this was

00:00:39.680 now, so this was October, 2021. So we're like in COVID times where like super isolated because of

00:00:45.800 choices that I had made and just, you know, those were crazy times in general. And so, uh, I was

00:00:51.120 like, Oh man, get to hang out with people. Okay. Even though these are like church people, I don't

00:00:54.880 know if they're even going to accept me because I'm LGBTQ, but I went and, um, the Lord was just

00:01:00.600 continuing us off in my heart. And it all kind of culminated in a moment at my kitchen table shortly

00:01:04.500 after that youth group service, where I was trying to understand God's love and that we love because

00:01:09.400 he first loved us. And, you know, even one of the songs that like, he's a good father, that's who he

00:01:14.100 is and who I am is loved by him. That was such a new way to understand that like my identity could

00:01:18.840 be that I'm loved by him. And at this time, by the way, I hadn't shared, but I shortly after

00:01:24.760 the abortion, I actually started to think that maybe I wasn't even a woman at all. And I started

00:01:29.080 to present as a man, as transmasculine, not a full-on man, but I knew I wasn't, I didn't think

00:01:34.040 I was a woman and I was using they, them pronouns. I almost took testosterone and I did get approved

00:01:39.360 for top surgery, but praise the Lord, I never went through with it. And so I was looking very

00:01:44.140 masculine and LGBTQ and all of this. And so even this notion that like I was his daughter was like,

00:01:50.500 if anyone else called me daughter, like my mom tried to call me daughter on a birthday card,

00:01:53.960 I would cringe. But that he was calling me daughter was so different. And he was drawing me to him.

Action4Canada - May 14, 2026