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| | '''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. | | '''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> |
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| | == Publications == | | == Publications == |
| | Heyer’s story can be read in novel form in ''Kid Dakota and The Secret at Grandma’s House'' and in his autobiography, ''A Transgender’s Faith'', originally named ''Trading My Sorrows''. | | Heyer’s story can be read in novel form in ''Kid Dakota and The Secret at Grandma’s House'' and in his autobiography, ''A Transgender’s Faith'', originally named ''Trading My Sorrows''. |
| − | *''Kid Dakota and the Secret at Grandma's House'' is a [novel]] based on a true story, author Walt Heyer powerfully places the reader in the life of a boy growing up in [[Los Angeles]] in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kid Dakota and the Secret at Grandma's House |url=http://www.kiddakotabook.com |accessdate=3 Feb 2018}}</ref> | + | *''Kid Dakota and the Secret at Grandma's House'' is a [[novel]] based on a true story, author Walt Heyer powerfully places the reader in the life of a boy growing up in [[Los Angeles]] in the 1940s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kid Dakota and the Secret at Grandma's House |url=http://www.kiddakotabook.com |accessdate=3 Feb 2018}}</ref> |
| | *''A Transgender's Faith'' courageously challenges [[political correctness]] and the [[Sex change theory|gender change]] [[activist]]s who say "Transgenders are [[Ideomotor_effect#People_supposedly_.E2.80.98born_that_way.E2.80.99|born that way]]" by daring to share the powerful testimony of one man's faith and restoration to his birth gender. | | *''A Transgender's Faith'' courageously challenges [[political correctness]] and the [[Sex change theory|gender change]] [[activist]]s who say "Transgenders are [[Ideomotor_effect#People_supposedly_.E2.80.98born_that_way.E2.80.99|born that way]]" by daring to share the powerful testimony of one man's faith and restoration to his birth gender. |
| | *''Paper Genders'' — A fresh perspective on the medical treatment for [[gender identity]] issues, combining well-researched facts with personal accounts. Exposes and debunks the promises of gender change surgery and shines a light on the [[suicide]]s and dissatisfaction that the advocates would prefer to keep hidden. | | *''Paper Genders'' — A fresh perspective on the medical treatment for [[gender identity]] issues, combining well-researched facts with personal accounts. Exposes and debunks the promises of gender change surgery and shines a light on the [[suicide]]s and dissatisfaction that the advocates would prefer to keep hidden. |
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| | *[http://WaltHeyer.com WaltHeyer.com] | | *[http://WaltHeyer.com WaltHeyer.com] |
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| − | == See Also == | + | == See also == |
| | *[[Homo-fascism]] | | *[[Homo-fascism]] |
| | *[[Sex-change regret]] | | *[[Sex-change regret]] |