I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Laura Perry.

After years of trying to live as a man, Laura Perry found Christ love in the midst of detransitioning.

Her new book is Transgender to Transform,

a story of transition that will truly set you free.

Honestly, this has been such a miraculous work of the Lord.

I didn't figure out how to fix it.

He fixed it all.

I mean, as he just began to peel away the layers,

as I begin to forgive my mother,

as I begin to let go of all the bitterness, and it's just like little by little one step at a time, layer by layer,

and he's just brought so much healing.

And as he healed the inside, the outside begin to change.

Laura Perry lived for nearly a decade as a transgender man named Jake.

She took testosterone treatments that lowered her voice and caused her to grow facial hair,

while cutting short the hair on her head.

She even had cosmetic surgery.

This was not a mere dabbling or experimentation.

She went all in. It was only then, though, that she realized that she was not,

in fact, a man trapped in a woman's body. She was a woman, but by then she had made changes to her

body that would be difficult, in some cases, impossible to undo.

Though she did shave her beard, she stopped taking testosterone,

which caused severe withdrawal pains,

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