#455 How God Changed My Heart (Even After I Changed My Gender) with Laura Smalts

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

For most of her childhood, Laura wanted to be a boy. In her 20s, she began hormone therapy, had surgery and lived as Jake for nine years. But she could never quite shake the feeling that none of it was real. "I remember looking at the photo on my driver's license and saying, 'I'm not as happy as I think I am.'" In this episode, Laura shares her remarkable story of desperation, hope and transformation.

Guest: Laura Perry Smalts

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Transgender to Transformed by Laura Perry Smalts*
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0:00.0	Hey friend, do you ever find yourself wishing you could go deeper into the topics and conversations
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0:43.3	for second cup and other member benefits, just head to AuthenticNBC.com slash member. We'll link
0:50.5	to that in our show notes. And it was like I was honestly stunned that God saved me and God saved
0:57.3	me as a transgender and I thought, and I just sort of assumed God accepted me this way.
1:01.6	But I didn't understand that God doesn't change us all at once. It's not like a moment
1:07.2	to become a Christian, we're suddenly sinless, you know, but at the same time God didn't leave me there.
1:15.9	Hey friend, welcome to Java with Julie. I'm Julie Slattery and I'm so glad that you've
1:20.4	joined me today. This podcast is an outreach of AuthenticNBC. I'm extremely dedicated to reclaiming
1:26.3	God's design for sexuality. The clip you heard at the top of the show is from my guest today,
1:32.4	Laura Perry-Smoltz, and she's going to share her story, her testimony, of struggling with gender,
1:38.1	transitioning to a man, and then coming to Christ and eventually leaving the transgender lifestyle.
1:44.9	Laura was recently married and she's written an autobiography called Transgender to Transformed.
1:51.2	She's passionate about helping all of us surrender our whole selves to Christ. But her stories
1:56.6	is especially helpful to those who are struggling with gender or who are walking with a loved one
2:01.7	who has such a struggle. We'll provide a link to Laura's autobiography as well as some other
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