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S2 Ep1088: Transitioning, Detransitioning, and the Gospel: Kyla Gillespie

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Kyla is a former pro hockey player, who experiences same-sex attraction, lived as a man for several years and then detransitioned back to her birth sex several years ago after meeting Jesus all over again. In this conversation, Kyla shares her story and we discuss how the church can do a better job loving trans people with both truth and grace. Learn more about Kyla by visiting her website: https://kylagillespie.com

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0:00.0

Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the

0:02.6

ROM, I guess today is the one or only Kylie Gillespie who is

0:06.0

from Canada. Kylie has played professional hockey for a

0:10.0

number of years, grew up in the church, ended up experiencing

0:14.4

same-sex attraction as a teenager and gender dysphoria

0:18.1

transitioned later on in life. And then about six years ago,

0:21.8

D transitioned back to her natal sex, a female, and has just a

0:25.9

really awesome story, journey, and most of all, just a passionate

0:30.4

heart for Jesus Christ, which you will see very clearly in this

0:33.5

episode. So please welcome back to the show, the one or only

0:36.3

Kylie Gillespie.

0:47.3

All right, hey, Kylie. It's been, uh, it's been a minute. I

0:51.2

was been like probably two or three years since you're on the

0:53.6

podcast, I think, and over a year since you spoke at the first

0:57.6

exiles conference. So anyway, thanks for coming back on the

1:00.3

all-general. Thank you. It's awesome to be here. It's been a

1:03.1

little while for sure. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so just so our

1:07.7

audience knows, like we've done, you know, a lot of things

1:10.5

together. We met over email. You reached out to me. I want to

1:16.2

say about six or seven years ago. It was shortly after you

1:20.1

kind of, I think you were just detransitioning or shortly

1:24.5

after. I mean, you were in a really interesting part of your

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