God’s Amazing Grace in a Transgendered Person’s Life (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Laura Perry Smalts shares about her 7-year journey of transitioning and identifying as a male before realizing she was living a lie and then fully embracing her female gender. She tells about her painful experiences living with a self-created identity outside of God’s design and incredible plan for her, revealed through her loving parents and other believers. Laura and Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician, speak compassionately about the issues surrounding gender confusion in today’s culture, offering practical insights, hope and help. (Part 1 of 2)

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1:02.2	Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, Laura Perry Smalts tells her story of experiencing
1:08.1	gender identity confusion.
1:10.9	And so I realized that I could not ever be a man.
1:14.6	And that's when that depression really started to set in.
1:17.6	Because I realized this was always going to be fake.
1:20.0	But there was so much pain in being a woman.
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