"I spent 19 years living as a man" -- testimony from a recovered transgender female
Powerful testimony against Massachusetts "transgender bill" H502
POSTED: June 6, 2011
On Wednesday, June 8, the Judiciary Committee will hear a lot of well-rehearsed cries of anguish and discrimination from transgender activists. We want to make sure that the other side - the truth - is heard, also.
Back in April Sarah Allis Yang, a recovered "transgender," came before the California Legislature and gave powerful testimony against Bill S48 which would require all California public schools to actively present transgenderism to kids in a positive light.
Powerful testimony before California Legislature
She exposed the fraudulent nature of the transgender movement and the harm it does to vulnerable people. Her personal experience is really compelling, very moving. You can watch it HERE:
Testimony for Massachusetts Legislature:
We contacted her and asked her if she would be willing to submit testimony for Wednesday's Transgender Bill hearing here in Massachusetts. She was happy to do so, and sent us the following, which we will submit at the hearing for her.
TESTIMONY OF SARAH ALLIS YANG
June 8, 2011
To the Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature:
I am a proud graduate of UC Berkeley and I currently work in the film industry. The reason I am writing you today is because I spent 19 years of my life living as a man. My first words were "I'm a boy." If anyone could claim that they were "born this way," it was me.
I thought I had no choice but to either get surgery or continue dating women as a man trapped in a girl's body. I became suicidal not because of societal pressures or lack of understanding or acceptance from others but because I personally didn't want to live this way because it was a detrimental and painful lifestyle and no one offered me any other choice or option but to be this way.
That led to hopelessness and depression, because of the belief that I could never change. That is until God came into my life.
Thirteen years later, I now totally embrace and accept myself for who I really am, a woman. I'm even marrying the love of my life, a man named Matt this September.
This is the happiest I've ever been with myself, my life, and my romantic relationship and it is because I chose as an act of self-will to leave the gay lifestyle and love and embrace my true self, a heterosexual woman. And I am not alone, there are thousands like me who have freely chosen to leave the gay lifestyle.
I've never questioned whether I was Asian but I definitely questioned my sexual orientation. I fear for the safety of young people who like myself in my adolescence will become suicidal because they aren't presented with the truth that sexual orientation and gender confusion is not the same thing as someone's skin color and ethnicity. It's a choice and by the act of self-determination they can choose whatever lifestyle will make them happiest. Isn't this what this nation was founded upon? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that even if all of society: education, government, media, the business sector, churches, families, and the medical field all supported homosexuality as a healthy and legitimate way of life, I would still be suicidal had I not been presented the option of embracing myself as a heterosexual woman choosing to walk down the aisle to my future husband, Matt.
I am just thankful that true freedom of speech was still allowed at my school when I was growing up and given the message that change is possible, that there is another way than just accepting that I was "born this way."
In conclusion, I am here before you today to ask that you vote against Bill H502/S764 because it promotes gender confusion and experimentation that threatens the safety of Massachusetts' youth. And I assure you from personal experience that the homosexuals are not the same thing as an ethnic or racial group because I'm living proof it's a choice.
