Detransition to Freedom
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Summary
Sarah was raised in a Christian home where she was indoctrinated at a young age to believe she was born a woman. At the age of 14, she was introduced to the world as a transgender woman. She grew up in a religious, Christian home and was raised to believe that God's Word was a holy and loving word. However, as she grew older, she began to question her faith and her relationship with God. In order to heal, she had to leave her religious upbringing and go through the process of coming out to her family and finding her true identity.
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Okay, so I want to move to now. What was that amazing moment where you ended up? What was,
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what were the dynamics of that amazing moment when you realized, I think I've made the wrong decision?
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Well, I've been having that thought kind of since I stopped antidepressants, because I
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wanted to take those problems on by myself. But I just didn't have a trust for counselors or
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therapists anymore, because a lot of the things they had said to me, or told me to do were just
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so so wrong on so many levels i just couldn't trust them but after reaching that it's too late
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point i had kind of just pulled myself together and kept on living as dean which was the name i
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went by at the time and then i went to church with my parents and our pastor matt i really like that
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guy um he he uh gave this kind of speech because you know they don't really it's like illegal to
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talk about these issues in churches now but god comes before the law god's law does and
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so he spoke up and read through a lot of the things in the bible that talked about transsexuals
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and where it was like a man shall not wear a woman's clothing or a woman a man's and
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this act is an abomination and i think that word hit me really hard because you know god's words
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come down like a sword and i was hit and pierced the heart and i was just i was just panicking and
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my vision started to go black and i was just sitting there and i think it it really hit me
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that whether I thought it was too late or not, whether I didn't believe or know it would be
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possible, I knew I had to try for God because even if I believed it was impossible, nothing
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is impossible with God. And I went into the back room of the church with my dad because he saw I
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was panicking and tearing up. And he sat with me and he said, as much as I want to protect you,
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i can't protect you from god's word and it's up to you what you want to do here but i will
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be by your side and love you no matter what and then it took me a while to think over it because
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i was still like i went into a deep dark place and i went back to church the next time and when
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they had communion i i had this overwhelming i guess feeling of guilt on me and i couldn't walk
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up. I couldn't get the bread, I couldn't get the wine, I couldn't do it, because for me it was like,
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as soon as I take that and have my sins washed away, I'm still doing what I'm doing. And even
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if there was some way you could interpret it differently, if there was a 1% chance that what
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I was doing was wrong in God's eyes, I could not do it anymore. And with those two things,
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I don't want to do this anymore. And with the Word of God, I was like, I don't know how I'm
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I'm going to get back to me, but I'm going to give it my all.
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That's just absolutely, I'm sitting here and I'm just saying, praise the Lord.
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You know, the fact that you were raised in a Christian home, you knew God's word, the seeds and the word were planted within you.
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You wrestled with those, you made decisions, you know, because you became a victim of a crime.
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And I just encourage you to watch this video of Sarah because her testimony is so powerful.
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There's so much more that came to keep it all in context of this.
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Her father comes on after this, and the point was that within her heart, the scripture was
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She remained in a very dark place from the time she was 14, and they indoctrinated her
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in the school system and convinced her to have the medical surgery, top surgery, to
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remove her breasts, and then immediately offered her bottom surgery, and she refused that.
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but she took the top surgery and now that she was one of those ones that was in her 20s and when
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she went to seek help there was so many people hundreds thousands more like her that were in
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the same position so this is to prove that the church plays a key role in offering the help
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because the lgbtq and the government are doing nothing for these trend detransitioners and that's
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why they're committing suicide. They don't have the love of the church. So I rebuke what the
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government is saying that scripture is hateful. God has this scripture in place for our best
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interest to call out sin for what it is. And we can't stop doing that because the very lives of
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our children are relying on it. Now, this is a group that is very much behind. This is the one
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that I wanted to show you as to about the church being under attack and that Bill C9 is not the
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beginning, it is the result of this. And it says exploring experiences of religious-based
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homophobia and transphobia in places of worship.