My Trans Identity Was Forged In the Wilderness

Photo by Vincent Battault via Unspalsh.

In my last years of college before I started seminary, I was in the wilderness. I had to finally grapple with feelings I’d been trying to avoid for years: that I was attracted to women, and that something about the gender I’d been assigned wasn’t right.

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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