Articles by Walt Heyer

By Walt Heyer January 13, 2025, The Federalist It is unimaginable to me that surgeons today perform ‘gender surgeries’ as treatment given what we now know.

by Walt Heyer March 28, 2024, The Washington Stand Read how we arrived at this point and how we move beyond “trans.” We move beyond “trans” when: we acknowledge no one “transitions,” even when they say they have. we stop saying “gender is assigned at birth” and can be...

Walt Heyer January 25, 2024, Newsweek Walt tells his story in Newsweek's "My Turn" column. Here is an excerpt: If my gender specialist truly wanted to help, he would have recognized that hormones and surgery wouldn't be beneficial for me given my past trauma. Yet,...

By Jennifer Bauwens and Walt Heyer January 23, 2024, The Washington Stand. The tooth fairy tradition is meant to be a harmless way for parents to engage in make-believe play with their growing children. But what happens when the lines of play become blurred with...

By Jennifer Bauwens, Ph.D. and Walt Heyer January 8, 2024, The Washington Stand. We believe the terms of a gender dysphoria diagnosis must be viewed in conjunction with contributing factors, such as adverse childhood experiences. Unfortunately, this is not the...

Other articles written by Walt Heyer that influenced the national dialogue between 2015 and 2023: A Message to Governor DeWine Regarding the Ohio SAFE Act: Sign It December 23, 2023, The Washington Stand Gender Dysphoria Is About Confusion. So Is Its Latest Claim for...

by Walt Heyer The Daily Wire, April 22, 2022 Who knew that being dressed up as a little girl by my grandmother when I was a four-year-old boy would lead to undergoing “sex change surgery” in my forties, and who knew that, now in my eighties, I would be writing to...

by Walt Heyer Washington Times OPINION section, October 9, 2019 If you haven’t heard about the U.S. Supreme Court case R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, you soon will. Its outcome is likely to have a far-reaching impact...

by Walt Heyer, Opinion contributor USA Today, Feb. 11, 2019 At first I was giddy for the fresh start. But hormones and sex change genital surgery couldn't solve the underlying issues driving my gender dysphoria. [This article was the top read article at USA Today in...

by Walt Heyer Public Discourse, Apr 1, 2015 The reprieve provided by surgery and life as a woman was only temporary. Hidden deep underneath the make-up and female clothing was the little boy hurt by childhood trauma, and he was making himself known.