“The hope that I have in sharing my story and sharing my testimony is that people will hear that there are consequences for our choices, yet we serve a God of the impossible, and He is a God of reconciliation and restoration.”
A woman who lived as a man for six years said she wished doctors would have been more honest with her about what transitioning would do to her life and emotional health.
“I wish that the doctors would have explained the in-depth parts of surgeries, that I would grieve unwanted body parts, that I would be emotional about it,” Kyla Gillespie told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Gillespie’s struggle with gender dysphoria began in early childhood.
“I was born a biological female, I grew up in an athletic house, I was raised in a Christian home,” Gillespie said. “And at a very young age, about 5 or 6, playing hockey, realized that I actually wasn’t one of the boys. I was a girl and have very few recollections of that moment, but I just realized I was different than most little girls. And from there, growing up in the Christian home, I went to youth group and I started to realize that my friends were attracted to the opposite sex, but this, unfortunately, just wasn’t the case for me. I ended up being attracted to the same sex and, at that time, about 14, 15, my parents also got divorced and that really separated our family.”
By the time she was 19, Gillespie said that she had begun drinking and that would lead to 11 years as an alcoholic.
“Being so broken away from home and really lost, I took my first drink at 19. And if I would have known anything about alcoholism, I would’ve known that day, blacking out that I was an alcoholic,” Gillespie said. “But it would take 11 years for me to realize this. Playing at a highest level of women’s hockey in Canada, owning my own business and teaching high-performance hockey, my life was falling apart.”
After 11 years as an alcoholic, Gillespie said she knew she needed to change something, so she ended up entering a Christian recovery facility.
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