I'm Trans and I Love Jesus | An interview with Laura Skaer

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Mental Health, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Over the last 5 years, trans rights have become a cultural lightning rod. But what often gets left behind in the culture war are the stories of real-life trans people. In this episode, Keith interviews his friend, Laura Skaer, a Jesus follower who transitioned from male to female in the early 90s. She shares her experiences and faith journey with incredible honesty. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook) and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TMBTpodcast. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	My name is Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon.
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0:26.8	When are your earliest memories of feeling uncomfortable in your body?
0:31.5	I was four or five years old and I had this feeling that I should
0:37.0	have been a girl. It was just a feeling that my body didn't match what I felt inside.
0:43.8	Who is the first person you told about this?
0:46.2	Oh gosh, I didn't tell anyone about this until...
0:52.2	In the mid-70s on a business trip I took a detour to Baltimore
0:59.0	to John Hopkins University where they had a doctor or two that were spending a lot of time
1:07.1	with gender identity issues, gender dysphoria is what they called it and I went there to tell him that I thought I was
1:17.1	Transsexual and I wanted to start hormone treatment
1:20.6	How old were you?
1:21.9	Almost 30, 29. So you start having these feelings as a little boy in your four or five and you think at least the best you can tell and make sense out of it in a four or five year old brain
1:34.4	that you feel like a girl. You keep that quiet for 24, 25 years.
1:41.9	Yeah, kept that as my secret.
1:44.0	Why didn't you tell anybody before that?
1:46.0	I was scared to.
1:48.0	I was afraid to.
1:49.0	I was afraid that people would think I was kind of sick or crazy.
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