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,...
Articles
The Tooth Fairy and Gender Dysphoria
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...
Why The Medical Definition Of ‘Gender Dysphoria’ Is A Get-Rich Scam, Not A Real Diagnosis
By Jennifer Bauwens, Ph.D. and Walt Heyer January 8, 2024, The Federalist. 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 predominant...
Articles Published 2015-2023
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...
I Underwent Gender Transition Surgery. Here’s Why I Regret It
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...
Opposing legal efforts to redefine ‘sex’ as ‘gender identity’
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...