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And I rejected my own mother, despite her best efforts to mother me. She loves me. She did her best, but I rejected her growing up.

I looked at her and I thought, you know what? You're emotional. You're weak. You're not strong like dad. And I just thought, I want nothing to do with the world of woman.

Well, today we're featuring a fascinating story of gender confusion and ultimately of redemption. This is Focus on the Family and your host is Focus President and author Jim Dayley. I'm John Fuller.

Our guest is Dr. Linda Seiler and she has great insights into LGBT issues because this is a path that she has walked herself and that brings such credibility to her message.

Linda is the executive director of Restory Ministries, which helps churches address these issues. And she's also a missionary to college campuses, training student leaders to apply God's truth to current cultural matters.

And boy, we need that right now, don't we?

Oh, we do. Scripture has to be applied to all these different felt needs. It's so crucial. It is a challenge to present biblical guidance in a loving manner, especially in topics like gender confusion and homosexuality.

Here now is Linda Seiler speaking at Trinity Community Church in Hocus and Delaware. And by the way, if you have children nearby, this is one of those programs you might want to use your buds on or listen to later through our focus on the Family app.

From my earliest memory, I wanted to be a little boy instead of a little girl. Very boyish. I don't have a single memory of being okay in a female body.

I felt like I was a little boy trapped in a girl body and I needed to change. I remember praying and asking God if he would turn me into a boy before I got out of bed that morning to go to school.

Obviously, that didn't happen and I got out of bed at disappointed little girl, which affected my view of God, affected my view of myself.

That was the consuming, driving desire of my life. It was the center of my life. As we're talking about Jesus should be the center. Well, this was the center. It was an obsession for my life.

My parents thought I was just a tomboy. A lot of girls like to grow up and climb trees and not play with Barbies and make up and all of that stuff.

Which was true of my sister. She wanted to be inside with makeup and Barbies and all that. Nancy's three years older than I am and she was just a normal little girl.

But me, I wanted to be outside playing with the boys. Nancy would be imitating mom, putting makeup on and playing with dolls. And I'm outside pretending to mow the lawn like dad or in the mirror, pretending to shave like dad.

I just desperately wanted to be in that world of man. And I rejected my own mother, despite her best efforts to mother me. She loves me. She did her best, but I rejected her growing up.

And I didn't know, but that left a vacuum in my heart for female love, feminine love, that I didn't receive it the way God designed it through my natural mother.

And so that vacuum in my heart wanted to be filled because God designed it to be filled. We all need a mommy. We all need a daddy.

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