From Regret to Truth: God’s Design for Identity with Walt Heyer
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Our culture is lying about identity—and the consequences are devastating. In this bold follow-up conversation, Walt Heyer exposes how trauma and ideology fuel confusion, and why real compassion means telling the truth and returning to God’s design. This is a hard conversation, but it’s one we can’t afford to ignore.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. I am really looking |
| 0:05.8 | forward to today's conversation. It's going to be deeply encouraging. Also, it's going to be |
| 0:10.6 | difficult. This is a difficult conversation, a difficult topic. My guest today is Walt Hire. |
| 0:16.2 | Many of you will remember him from a show I did several months ago on transgenderism. Walt has an incredible |
| 0:21.8 | story that you're going to want to lean in and listen to today. Listen, gender ideology is not |
| 0:28.7 | just a benign ideology that's coming out of our schools and our universities. It is absolutely |
| 0:33.9 | demonic. Gender is not a costume. It's not a feeling. Sex isn't something that we can |
| 0:39.8 | manipulate with surgery and hormones. And yet the society that we are living in right now is |
| 0:44.6 | insisting that this ideology is continued to be taught to children and really trying to |
| 0:50.9 | attempt to hijack the language. I would even call it an attempt at this point. I would say |
| 0:54.5 | they would say they've successfully done it. So today we're going to cut through the noise and have a |
| 0:59.6 | conversation that I think is going to be very important for you, also for your pastor. If you've got |
| 1:04.4 | questions about transgenderism and the sexual ideology that's in our schools and on our |
| 1:10.3 | university campuses today, this is an important |
| 1:12.4 | conversation. I hope that you'll share it with your friends and your neighbors, and I hope |
| 1:16.5 | you'll be encouraged. So grab a cup of coffee and stick around. I think you're going to be |
| 1:20.5 | encouraged. Thank you guys for listening today. |
| 1:32.3 | Before I jump into it with my guest, today's podcast is being sponsored in part by my friends |
| 1:37.0 | at the Functional Medical Institute. |
| 1:38.7 | You guys can find out more about them by going to homeschoolhealth.com. |
| 1:42.0 | It's worth noting that everybody at the Functional Medical |
| 1:44.9 | Institute knows exactly what a woman is. This is important in this day and age, isn't it? Welcome. |
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