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'''Walt Heyer''' is an author and public speaker with a passion to help others who regret gender change. Through his website and his blog, Heyer raises public awareness about the incidence of regret and the tragic consequences suffered as a result.

'''Walt Heyer''' is an author and public speaker with a passion to help others who [[sex-change regret|regret gender change]]. Through his website and his blog, Heyer raises public awareness about the incidence of regret and the tragic consequences suffered as a result.

Heyer was a senior executive of a major car company and had sex-change surgery in 1983, at the age of forty-two. After initial euphoria, he gradually discovered, within a few years, that it did not cure his deep-seated psychological problems. Heyer came to realize that his desire to be a woman had come from early childhood trauma when his grandmother had dressed him like a girl, and his stepfather had sexually [[Child abuse|abused]] him. Now he maintains there is no such thing as a [[transgender]] individual.<ref name="Ruse2017">{{cite book |title=Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data |author=Austin Ruse |publisher=Regnery Publishing |place=Washington, DC |year=2017 |pages=28-9 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXYT0z_lII}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Public School LGBT Programs Don't Just Trample Parental Rights. They Also Put Kids at Risk |author=Walt Heyer |publisher=The Witherspoon Institute |url=http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15118/ |quote=Walt Heyer is ... |accessdate=3 Feb 2018}}</ref>  

Heyer was a senior executive of a major car company and had sex-change surgery in 1983, at the age of forty-two. After initial euphoria, he gradually discovered, within a few years, that it did not cure his deep-seated psychological problems. Heyer came to realize that his desire to be a woman had come from early childhood trauma when his grandmother had dressed him like a girl, and his stepfather had sexually [[Child abuse|abused]] him. Now he maintains there is no such thing as a [[transgender]] individual.<ref name="Ruse2017">{{cite book |title=Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data |author=Austin Ruse |publisher=Regnery Publishing |place=Washington, DC |year=2017 |pages=28-9 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXYT0z_lII}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Public School LGBT Programs Don't Just Trample Parental Rights. They Also Put Kids at Risk |author=Walt Heyer |publisher=The Witherspoon Institute |url=http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15118/ |quote=Walt Heyer is ... |accessdate=3 Feb 2018}}</ref>