E220: Transition Promised A New Life: Now I Regret It w/Katie Coblentz | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Katie Coblentz grew up a tomboy—Spider-Man, catch with dad, boys’ clothes. As a teen, she felt like a misfit and found fleeting belonging in the LGBT community. In college, YouTube videos of joyful ‘trans men’ promised freedom from her anxiety and pain.
She transitioned—testosterone, surgery, a new name. The illusion worked. Until one day, she looked in the mirror… and saw a woman.
That moment unraveled everything.
Katie began the hard road of detransition and now speaks out against the trans ideology that nearly destroyed her. Her story is a warning—and a call to truth.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:32 - Who is Katie?
00:04:36 - Being a Tomboy
00:11:12 - EveryLife
00:12:04 - What was your relationship to sexuality at this point?
00:17:55 - At what point did you think you were transgender?
00:20:59 - Good Ranchers
00:21:58 - Experience at gender clinic
00:28:57 - What was it like being on testosterone?
00:31:27 - Hallow
00:32:17 - Any negative effects from testosterone?
00:36:41 - What was it like living as a man?
00:38:53 - How did it feel to ‘pass’ as a man?
00:40:40 - Bottom Surgery?
00:43:04 - What did your parents think?
00:47:26 - The effect on Katie’s sister
00:48:59 - Where did detransition come from?
00:51:30 - Why she didn’t like LGBT support groups
00:56:12 - Did you have any faith life then?
01:05:19 - So easy to transition; so hard to de-transition
01:09:05 - How did you react to breasts not growing back?
01:14:51 - The only thing keeping her going in life:
01:26:07 - How should pastors handle the LGBT questions?
01:30:41 - How should parents handle transgender question
01:35:54 - Advice for grandparents
01:46:03 - Are you comfortable as a woman now?
01:49:01 - Marriage
01:58:51 - Final thoughts on how to help people
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| 0:27.7 | forward slash express. When I was growing up, I always preferred boys toys, boys' clothing. So when |
| 0:34.2 | I was confused about who I am, confused about my identity, I would go down the LGBT rabbit hole. |
| 0:39.2 | Do I fit this letter or this letter, this letter? |
| 0:41.4 | What was it for you that gave you the aha moment that you thought I'm transgender? |
| 0:45.9 | It was after I had taken a shower, I can see the scars on my chest. |
| 0:49.2 | And I'm thinking, look at how much I've done to myself. |
| 0:51.5 | And it just broke me. |
| 0:52.5 | But because I was still taking testosterone, |
| 0:59.1 | I could just be done with crying if I wanted to. You're married now. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. To hear you just speak very candidly about what you've been through. Some people just don't want |
| 1:03.1 | to talk about it, and they certainly don't want to hear from people like you, a detransitioner. |
| 1:09.2 | Katie Koblenz believed that she was born in the wrong body. As a young girl, she loved |
| 1:13.9 | typically boy things. She was a tomboy. She enjoyed Spider-Man. She enjoyed playing outside with the boys. |
| 1:19.9 | As she got older in search for peace and a new identity, she turned to hormones and ultimately |
| 1:25.1 | surgery. In today's episode, Katie sits down with me and she shares |
| 1:28.9 | her story of detransition. In a world where confusion about sexuality and gender seems to be at an |
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