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The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation

#427: HOW I ESCAPED THE TRANS TRAP

The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation

Patrick Coffin

Catholicanswers, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Society & Culture, Commentary, Americanculture, Catholic, Conservative, Podcast, Christian

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary


Guest Nancy Charles, former trans activist and lesbian, now a joyful Catholic witness to truth and healing.

•⁠  ⁠In this very personal interview with Patrick Coffin, Nancy shares her early years of gender confusion and same-sex attraction, and how the LGBTQ+ movement offered belonging—but not peace.

•⁠  ⁠As a proud trans and active lesbian, she championed “authentic self-expression,” yet behind the public persona was deep restlessness, depression, and other traumatic wounds.

•⁠  ⁠A crisis moment led her to question the ideology she once preached; the slogans stopped matching reality.

•⁠  ⁠Her brother, Joshua Charles (author, scholar, and host of Eternal Christendom), played a key role by patiently engaging her with Scripture, logic, and brotherly love.

•⁠  ⁠Through prayer, study of the Catechism, and discovering the mercy of Christ in Confession and the Eucharist, Nancy experienced genuine conversion and interior healing thanks to a kind and wise Catholic priest.

•⁠  ⁠She now dedicates her life to helping others harmed by gender ideology find hope in the truth of being created male and female in God’s image.

•⁠  ⁠Nancy’s story testifies that grace transforms identity at its deepest level—because Christ doesn’t just affirm us; He restores us.

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0:00.0

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0:38.6

gotten from Mypillar.com. It's been a blessing, especially the blessing of a good night's sleep.

0:43.6

Okay, let's talk about transgenderism. Now, we're going to use some circle moccutions because

0:48.1

I don't want to get leader of the band. You know what I'm saying? So where we can, we'll speak as directly as possible,

0:55.5

but we also want to be prudent, innocent as doves and wise as serpent. So I want to introduce

1:00.4

Nancy Charles. A lot of you have seen her interviews elsewhere, talks that she's given. She was

1:05.9

in and out of the lesbian LGBT lifestyle, and that kind of morphed into gender confusion and full on transgender identity

1:13.5

with the full name change. I've watched her grow as a communicator and telling her own story,

1:18.7

which I'm sure is very difficult. And without further ado, Nancy Charles, welcome to the show.

1:23.5

Hi, Patrick. Thank you so much for having me on. It's a great honor. I always wonder where I should hit the rewind button with stories like yours.

1:31.0

Maybe a good place to start, just to get the more difficult things out of the way is family of origin.

1:36.3

We raised in a Christian home. Was there kind of trauma over time that led to this angling towards same-sex attraction?

1:45.2

Like, what was your,

1:50.6

what was your life like, say, under the age of 10? Yeah, so, I mean, we were raised in church.

1:55.0

Most people might know my brother, Joshua Charles. Him and I, when we share our stories about being younger, we have a much different experience, which is so interesting that two

1:59.6

people can be raised in the same home

2:01.4

and have a different experience. I think the biggest thing is I don't remember a lot of church

2:06.0

early on. We were raised Protestant though. Non-denominational, it felt like something just a chore

2:12.7

to have to do. But my relationship with church started to decay, I would say, rather early because I had been

2:19.1

exposed to things early on as a child, like sexual abuse, things like that. Nobody in our direct

2:25.0

immediate family, but people within the family. And then as you know, those things kind of progress

2:30.5

and they fester, especially if they're not brought to the light so that was definitely

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