Welcome back. I am so excited to introduce you guys to my next guest. A few years ago, I met a man named Walt Hire, and we had a conversation that really transformed my perspective. Probably the most eye-opening discussion I have ever had in my life, to be honest with you.

After living his life as a woman for eight years, he realized he made a terrible mistake. Here is his journey.

So you lived your life as a trans woman. How many years? For eight years.

Eight years. That's a very long time. And how old were you when you began to transition?

I was in my early 40s. I began to be a trans woman at 50.

Well, in the household that I was in, my mom and dad encouraged our natural genders, but it was my grandma when she was babysitting me, that somehow we got involved in this whole thing because she was made dresses.

And I became curious about this idea of her making dresses. So she made me a purple chiffon dress. And then she began to firm how cute I looked.

How old were you?

I was four.

Four years old.

And so this affirmation process, which you know as a four-year-old, you don't know, I mean it's grandma. So it's got to be okay.

And so when you have an adult encouraging you and nurturing you along in this way, you don't realize that this curiosity that you have as a child is also a quiet curiosity because you're really trusting the adult to guide you, to nurture you and give you good information.

And so I didn't realize what grandma was doing was going to be very destructive later on.

It's child abuse. Once my uncle realized that I had been wearing a purple dress, then I became his opportunity to be sexually molested.

He started sexually molesting me because of the purple dress.

My parents loved to go camping and fishing, so they would drop me off at grandma's house and they would go away for the weekend quite frequently.

So this began to develop over time. So I was two years into this cross-dressing thing before my parents found out.

I became so interested in being affirmed in that purple dress.

I mean I wanted to be affirmed.

What young child doesn't want that affirmation to say, well you look great, you're this, you're that.

And there's that thirst, you almost become addicted to the affirmation.

Then what I realized was that I couldn't talk to adults about what was going on.

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