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Hey guys, welcome to the show. Today, I have a very special guest, Jonathan Gass. He has an

amazing story of redemption. He was transgender and then became a Christian. His story is

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So welcome, Jonathan. Nice to meet you.

John. Okay, welcome, John. So, John, let's, you have an amazing story. I read about, I read about you in the gospel coalition. You wrote an article

about your story. We'll put the link below to that. But let's start with your childhood.

When did you start to feel gender dysphoria? When did you start to feel like you were in the wrong body?

I would say around six years old, to be honest with you. It was, as soon as I realized there was an actual difference between boys and girls that I started having those feelings. There was a certain innocent time

where I just thought it was a preference for certain colors and different styles of clothing

that for some reason other children were allowed to choose, but I wasn't. So as soon as that faded, I was realizing that there were a lot of things that I really

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