Former Transgender Asks Senators Not to Ban Counselling That Helped Her Change
I took testosterone for 11 years trying to escape abuse. Real healing came only when counselors addressed my trauma, not my body. Banning that help sentences others to the same irreversible harm.
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Kathy Grace Duncan, a biological female who lived as a man for 11 years after childhood abuse and molestation, tells the Canadian Senate how trauma-based gender dysphoria led her to hormones and legal transition. She credits church-based counseling—not medical intervention—with healing the underlying wounds and enabling her to live peacefully as a woman for the past 27 years.
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Kathy Grace Duncan, addressing the Canadian Senate, introduces herself as a biological female who, from before the age of five, felt she had been “born into the wrong body” and believed she should have been a boy. She describes a childhood marked by gender dysphoria and a longing to be male, rooted in a dysfunctional home where her father abused her mother. Watching her newborn brother being celebrated at age seven reinforced the idea that girls were “replaceable” and that masculine identity was the path to the affirmation she craved. Between the ages of 10 and 12 she was molested by a family member, an experience that, she says, “confirmed the lies that women were hated, vulnerable and weak.” Determined not to embody those traits, she began taking male hormones and living as a man at 19, legally changing her name. Although she became a Christian shortly after transitioning, Duncan explains that, as a new believer, she did not yet understand how to align her life with God’s will. Living as a man, she descended into a “deep pornography addiction” and entered a painful, dysfunctional relationship. The turning point came one night on her way to orchestra practice at church when, she recounts, “the Lord called to me and said, ‘Will you now? Will you now?’” Feeling she had “nothing to lose,” she answered yes and reports being immediately delivered from her pornography addiction. In the same period she experienced a direct encounter with Jesus that convinced her she needed to return to living as the woman God had created her to be. Duncan credits the church and a discipleship ministry called the Portland Fellowship with providing the counseling and support that led to “healing, restoration and great peace.” She emphasizes that these resources addressed underlying trauma rather than merely treating symptoms, and she frames them as distinct from “conversion therapy.” Urging senators to vote against Bill S202, she argues that banning such counseling would remove hope and choice from people struggling with gender confusion or unwanted same-sex attraction. She closes by reminding lawmakers that she lived as a man for 11 years and has now lived as her biological sex for 27, declaring, “Change is possible. I know because I have changed.”