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Former Olympian Bruce Jenner has been hailed a hero by some in the LGBT community for his recent sex-change surgery and name change to Caitlyn. But one man who has changed sexes twice says that the transgender movement has left a trail of misery in its wake. Author and speaker Walt Heyer has experienced sex-change regret first hand."The surgery fixed nothing - it only masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems," Heyer wrote in an article on Public Discourse. "If more people were aware of the dark and troubled history of sex-reassignment surgery, perhaps we wouldn't be so quick to push people toward it," he said. Is sex-change surgery the answer to gender dysphoria? How should the Church respond to transgenders? "We need to be mindful that the Church is a hospital for broken people. And as such, we need to be the people who administer assistance and guidance to those people who are suffering," Heyer said. "We don'

As the transgender movement becomes all the rage in popular culture, those who once lived that lifestyle – and are now plagued with regret – are coming forward to share their stories.Author Walt Heyer chronicles their various journeys in his new book, Trans Life Survivors . "Trans Life Survivors showcases emails from 30 or so people, selected from among hundreds who have written me, concerning what many calls 'the biggest mistake' of their lives," Heyer writes in the book's introduction. Living with Regret: How One Man's Sex Change 'Fixed Nothing' Heyer is hardly an outsider regarding this controversial issue. To the contrary, Heyer himself endured a life-long struggle with gender confusion leading him to have a sex-change operation and live as a woman for nearly a decade. He later discovered, however, that he was suffering from a mental condition known as "dissociative id