He used to be transgender. Now his birth certificate tells the truth again
After 28 years as a legally-recognized woman, Walt Heyer won his long battle to have his birth certificate restored to its original gender. Heyer’s first attempt to restore his legal gender as a male on his birth certificate was in 1989, but California state authorities would not allow it. Years earlier, he had physically altered his body to look like a woman and was officially recognized as a female. Finally, with the help of lawyers from Liberty Counsel, Heyer’s birth certificate was changed back this year to its original, God-given gender. “The restoration of my original male gender many years later shows man’s unwillingness to consider carefully the long-term consequences,” he told LifeSiteNews. Heyer was abused as a boy by his uncle. His grandmother also abused him by sewing dresses for him to wear. Hence, like so many others who are abused and mistreated, he began identifying with an opposite-sex alter ego. Throughout adolescence, Heyer was obsessed with feminin