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Ex-Transgender: If California’s LGBT Therapy Ban Had Been Law 30 Yrs Ago, I Might Have Killed Myself
The Federalist ^ | 04/25/2018 | Walt Heyer

Posted on 04/25/2018 12:41:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

While living in California more than 30 years ago, I had access to sound, effective, time-tested psychotherapy. Because of it, I walked away from the transgender life I had lived as Laura Jensen for eight years in San Francisco.

Yet if I had been prevented from having access to such people and materials, as Assembly Bill 2943 proposes, the bill would have been a “stay trans and die” bill for me. I wanted to have access to restoration and redemption from my transgender life, but AB 2943 would make that illegal. The bill intends to prevent any access to what is potentially lifesaving psychotherapy for people who identify as transgender, like I did.

California Family Council points out that AB 2943 prevents counselors from helping adult clients deal with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion, and prohibits authors from selling a book, or even a church from hosting a ticketed conference, addressing these topics.

I started my journey toward redemption and the restoration of my male gender on April 7, 1990, with the help of two outstanding Christian therapists to whom I owe my life. The healing psychotherapy provided me has resulted in 32 years of sobriety, complete restoration of my male gender for 28 years, and marriage to a wonderful woman for 21 years. I speak out for the others who feel hopeless and stuck in a lifestyle that doesn’t fit them anymore.

If AB 2943 were in place back in the 1990s, most likely I would have died from suicide or, as this bill proposes, once I embraced my life as a trans-woman, I was sentenced for life. The bill’s authors want to make sure the gender-dysphoric people they claim to be “helping” have no way out, even if that’s what they desperately want.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; lgbt; transgender
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1 posted on 04/25/2018 12:41:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Author says PEOPLE DETRANSITION ALL THE TIME.

If you think detransitions are rare, just Google “detransition” and see the multitude of videos from courageous formerly trans people who tell of the peace they have found with their God-given gender through a combination of counseling and faith.

If this bill becomes law, these people will no longer have access to help they choose, because apparently some in California’s government think no one should be allowed to change his or her mind about what constitutes being at peace with one’s sex.


2 posted on 04/25/2018 12:42:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

But their intentions would have been good.


3 posted on 04/25/2018 12:43:03 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Continuing evidence that the Left hates people and is pro-death.


4 posted on 04/25/2018 12:43:45 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thereby proving that transgenders are mentally-ill because they are suicidal.


5 posted on 04/25/2018 12:45:34 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Jim 0216
Continuing evidence that the Left hates people and is pro-death.

They love their ideology more than they love life itself.

They believe they are engaged in a long struggle to remake mankind in a new image, and that millions of deaths and broken lives are a sacrifice worth making to get to their utopian goal.

6 posted on 04/25/2018 12:47:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: SeekAndFind

“....if we can save even ONE confused life.....”. Doubt we will be hearing that, related to this legislation.


7 posted on 04/25/2018 12:51:14 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: SeekAndFind

Ex-Transgender? What, did he have it sewn back on?


8 posted on 04/25/2018 12:55:29 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s California. You can check out (i.e. die) any time you like, but you can never leave.


9 posted on 04/25/2018 1:02:11 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a one-way trap door with these demons.

Ursula the Sea Witch had more compassion.


10 posted on 04/25/2018 1:02:34 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


11 posted on 04/25/2018 1:05:35 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ETL

He may have only gone through hormone therapy yet remained intact.


12 posted on 04/25/2018 1:05:44 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t understand the mentality of transgender. I cannot identify with it. However, from what little exposure I have to this phenomenon, it is my impression that many of these people are tormented by their circumstances.

It seems to me they should have a right make an effort to seek a satisfactory physical and emotional outcome, regardless of their ultimate lifestyle choice - I think the Constitution refers to it as the “pursuit of happiness”. In my opinion, the legislation curtails fundamental human rights and should be invalidated if enacted.


13 posted on 04/25/2018 1:06:04 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is no true “transition” to another sex. There is surgically manipulated and drug supported pretense of a “transition”. The “solustions” hide, hinder and delay diagnosing psychological causes for an obsession, a mental health problem, that demands its own takeover of the personality.


14 posted on 04/25/2018 1:07:37 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: SeekAndFind

The government has no right to make such a law. No it doesn’t. It has the right to build roads and to protect us from enemies. It does not have the right to force people to detach their dicques or boobies.


15 posted on 04/25/2018 1:08:24 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

how soon before the leftists, in a similar vein, decide to outlaw certain medicines, such as penicillin or various vaccines that some folks don’t like?


16 posted on 04/25/2018 1:14:03 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Wuli
There is no true “transition” to another sex.

You are SO right! As I tell my General Biology students, you are born a female with two X chromosomes or a male with one X and one Y. No matter what you do to your anatomy or what hormones you take to change your outward appearance, you can not change the genes in your cells. There are rare anomalies that occur when the sex chromosomes fail to separate properly (such as XXY or XO), but those are rare and are not due to human manipulation.

17 posted on 04/25/2018 1:38:33 PM PDT by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death,....therefore, choose life..")
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To: SeekAndFind

Given that most homosexuals were sexually abused as children, this therapy ban amounts banning of RAPE THERAPY!!!


18 posted on 04/25/2018 1:56:15 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: SeekAndFind

I post this over and over again. Bad things happen when governments pretend:

The U.S. government pretended that black people weren’t fully human and allowed legalized slavery to continue.

The German government pretended that Jewish people weren’t fully human and the result was the Holocaust.

Many governments pretend that preborn people aren’t fully human and the result is millions and millions of human deaths from abortions.

Many governments are pretending that homosexuality is normal and the result is self-inflicted problems like this


19 posted on 04/25/2018 2:02:28 PM PDT by libertylover (If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
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To: Steely Tom
their utopian goal

Which is...?

...NOTHING short of Global Totalitarian Government which will really be the countdown of the end of the Age.

They are the deceivers and are the deceived. They are the deluded. They are the poster children of those who say, "I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing [including God]" (Rev. 3:17).

What they don't know is they are "wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked" (id.). The Left is driven by the very spirit of antichrist and those who do not repent and turn to Christ ("buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see" Rev. 3:18) will usher in the darkest most terrifying time the world has ever seen - after Christ takes his saints outta here - in a few decades IMO.

Keep the faith, Baby, and your power dry.


20 posted on 04/25/2018 2:43:31 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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