“Lack of healthy connection with my parents and an early exposure to pornography caused me to reject my own masculine identity.”

“Looking back on my childhood sexual trauma, I needed encouragement to refrain from embracing an LGBTQ identity.”

Counseling opened up a new world of self-understanding, emotional healing, and self-discovery. The life-dominating struggle of gender dysphoria and same-sex sexual feelings has faded, and today these are no longer a struggle.

“Looking back on my childhood sexual trauma, I needed encouragement to refrain from embracing an LGBTQ identity.”

“Looking back on my childhood sexual trauma, I needed encouragement to refrain from embracing an LGBTQ identity.”

“Sexual abuse created a web that led me to reject not only men and masculinity but even my own femininity.”

“The rift in the way I identified with other men eventually caused me to reject masculinity—even my own.”

“All the negative experiences I had with men were clear indicators that women weren’t good, further validating my longing to be a boy.”

“As I experienced more emotional healing and grew in confidence as a man, my sexual attraction to men decreased.”

“The suppression of my emotions influenced my relationships and my sense of self.”

“My dad’s abusive behavior and my early exposure to porn led me to reject any kind of physical connection with women for fear of perpetuating harm.”

“Same-sex abuse distorted my thoughts and perceptions, twisting my desires.”

“Sexual abuse as an adolescent and exposure to pornography as a teenager birthed unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction.”

“Emotional neglect, verbal abuse, and misogyny within my family greatly impacted how I saw myself and what I believed about women.”

“I ‘came out’ at sixteen and they supported me. They were my only refuge and the strongest people in my life. When life got hard I would envision myself as one of them, a strong woman, in order to dissociate and survive.”

“The socialization and affirmation of my femininity that I should have received as an adolescent was developmentally absent.”