‘I Destroyed a Family’: Walt Tells How He Had Surgery to Be Laura, Then Detransitioned After Regretting

‘I Destroyed a Family’: Walt Tells How He Had Surgery to Be Laura, Then Detransitioned After Regretting
(Background) A recent photo of Walt Heyer after detransitioning; (Left Inset) Heyer as boy; (Right Inset) Heyer after transitioning into Laura. Courtesy of Walt Heyer
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“I regret what I did because it was so selfish,” Walt Heyer, 82, told The Epoch Times. “I destroyed my career, I destroyed a family with a wonderful wife and two wonderful children, because no one would speak up and talk about the fact that you can’t change your gender.”

Born in California, Heyer, an author and advocate now living on the east coast, said he suffered trauma as a child. In adulthood, he underwent gender reassignment surgery and lived for eight years as a trans woman, before detransitioning in 1991.