One of the greatest horrors of the modern age has been the physical, emotional, and spiritual impact of gender theory, an initiative started by Alfred Kinsey, and today executed by those making millions in profit. According to society, there is no one too old or too young who can declare that they are the opposite gender, or even something in between.
Throughout America, national organizations are performing surgeries on men and women, boys and girls, all under the pretense that their lives will be better, improved, like new, if they would just do what is necessary to present themselves as the opposite sex.
Hormones. Therapy. Surgery. Affirmation.
Only affirmation.
And according to certain people, including Christians, our God is a God of Pronouns, an affirming God, a God who just wants us to be happy.
But what does the Bible actually say?
God made us male and female (Genesis 1:27).
God formed us in our mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13).
Lying is an abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 12:22).
Gender theory is a lie that far too many of us believe or are too afraid, or indifferent, to criticize. Even worse, for those who participate in today’s false teaching, they realize far too late that the belief that altering their body would bring long-term joy, fulfillment, and connection, was untrue.
Instead, they learn just the opposite, five years later, seven years, ten. That’s when they become most hopeless. That’s when the suicide rate is highest.
To every boy and girl, man and woman, who has been sold on a lie, know that there is still hope.
Whether you blame your mother, father, peers, the doctor, or yourself, you don’t have to die.
Jesus saves.
Here are 5 prayers for detransitioners:
1. Prayer for Healing
After what the doctors did to me, after what my parents told me to do, after the choices I made, God, my body will never be the same. I’m not sure how to go about life happily, or whether I should go about life at all.
I wish I could reverse all of it, take back the choices that I made. God, my body will never be the same.
I’m not sure if I want to go through life like this. Honestly, I’m not sure if I can, but God I have heard of your healing power. Sometimes I see your work on display. Would you place your healing hands on me now?
Even if all the pain cannot be undone, can you bring whatever healing is possible? Could you mend my broken body?
Though my body will never be the same, I know that you strengthen those who seek you. I know that through you healing is possible.
Lord, please help me in whatever way is possible.
Amen.
2. Prayer for Peace
I used to think that the feelings of confusion, of feeling trapped inside the wrong body would go away. I thought that believing I was the wrong gender would help me.
When time didn’t change anything, I thought hormones, therapy, and surgery would. God, nothing has changed. If anything, I feel so much worse. The thoughts in me are awful, telling me things I would never dare say out loud. But God, I hear them all the time. And honestly, I believe them.
Waking up in the morning feels like a burden. Going to sleep is the only break I have, but so often I don’t want to wake up. Living day to day is just too difficult when my mind is at war within me.
Lord, I pray for a peace only you can deliver. The world offered me a way out. That didn’t work. Now, I am turning to you, asking for mercy, for grace, for peace despite my mistakes.
Please calm my mind. Mend my anxious heart. Show me how to leave my burdens at the foot of the Cross.
Help me, Lord. I’m desperate.
3. Prayer for Life
God, what is the point in living when I don’t have anything to live for? I don’t know who I am or who I am supposed to be. I went a certain way, and I paid the cost. Now, I just wonder, what’s the point in continuing to live.
Why did you form me in my mother’s womb? Why have I been so confused about who I am in life? Do you really have a purpose for me? Even now?
God, show me what I really mean to you.
Sometimes life seems so precious, but at other times so difficult. I don’t want to live, not like this.
God, can you show me why? Why I should keep on living. Why I should wake up tomorrow?
Help me to see the light in the dark tunnel. Help me find joy in waking up tomorrow. Help me understand that I won’t always be this sad.
Lord, restore brightness to my eyes. Please don’t let me sleep in death.
4. Prayer for Community
Relationships always come and go, but in this season of life especially, they seem all but steady. Lord, what do I do when loneliness causes an ache in my soul? What should I do when I feel so utterly alone? How am I supposed to feel after friends have left my side?
Would anyone ever really love me? Could I ever find community despite what’s happened?
Here I am, praying to you, seeking direction. God, help me find a community, one that brings honor to you, one that I can serve and that serves me.
I’m in need of fellowship. Lord, hear my cry.
Amen.
5. Prayer for Jesus
God, I would be a liar if I said my faith has always been strong. There have been times when I believed, and other times when I doubted. No matter what the past looks like, today I’m asking for a change. Help me to develop a faith that believes in you without wavering, a faith that proclaims your truth and doesn’t blow in the wind when the world says the opposite.
I pray that Jesus would manifest in my life in a way that I’ve never seen before. Help me to become the Christian I never thought I could, to become the person I never thought I could be. And help me, Lord, to foster a relationship with you that I never thought possible.
I want a faith that glorifies you today and forevermore.
Amen.
Conclusion
If you are detransitioning, I cannot imagine the amount of hurt you feel. The guilt. The pain. My heart breaks, and at times I cry, considering all of the modern impact of gender theory on adults and children. While I cannot attest to having your experience, I can at the very least sympathize. I pray that these prayers would provide comfort and hope in your life.
May you find God today and every day.
Written in response to Detransition Reddit.
Photo Credit: ©iStock/Getty Images Plus/KatarzynaBialasiewicz
Aaron D'Anthony Brown is a freelance writer, hip-hop dance teacher, and visual artist, living in Virginia. He currently contributes to Salem Web Network’s Crosswalk platform and supports various clients through the freelancing website Upwork. He's an outside-the-box thinker with a penchant for challenging the status quo.
Get in touch with him at aarondanthony.com and check out his debut short story anthology Honey Dreams on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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