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As pro-life pregnancy resource centers continue in their fight against abortion, one particular center is expanding its vision to helping visitors accept their God-given gender. Alternatives Pregnancy Center, based in Sacramento, California is a full-service health clinic with doctors who specialize in hormone therapy. But whereas hormone therapy has been used to help transition people to be more aligned with their preferred gender, Alternatives is seeking to help so-called \u201cdetransitioners\u201d to return to their God-given identity.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a service that the center originally planned to offer, but Executive Director Heidi Matzke has learned to lean on the Holy Spirit during her tenure. During a talk she gave to a church about services the center offered, she felt a prompting from the Holy Spirit to only focus on the health services. Between services, what she thought was a man dressed as a woman approached her. The \u201cman\u201d however, revealed something to her. \u201c \u2018What you don’t know about me is that I’m biologically female, and I encountered Christ. The Holy Spirit has done work in my heart, and I am now trying to detransition. But my current doctors have basically abandoned me and I have nowhere to go,\u2019\u201d Matzke recalled to Fox News Digital<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The woman, Jessica Rose, had lived as a man named Aden for 7 years. She had been prescribed hormones and referred to breast removal after a 30-minute consult. Speaking to CBN<\/em><\/a>, Jessica recalled what her life was like as she transitioned to a man. \u201cI became a husband. I started to build the American dream. We got a house together. I had the cars. She had a child already, so I became a stepparent, and I was building this life I felt that I wanted. I was finally looking like the man I thought I wanted to be, living a life that I thought a man should live, she said. However, that didn\u2019t heal her pain and Jessica tried to take her own life. \u201cI still was not happy because I never addressed the wounds. I had never told anyone I was molested. I had never told anybody about the pain, but instead I hid it and said I was born this way. In my suicide attempt, I swallowed a bunch of pills, and I was waiting to die,\u201d she said. It was only after encountering Christ that she found what she was missing. Rose\u2019s connection with Alternatives changed both Matzke\u2019s and Rose\u2019s life, as Alternatives could now help her with her detransition journey. \u201cThey cared about my life to go slow with me, to educate me, and to love me,\u201d Jessica said of Alternatives. Now, Alternatives is finding a way to reach out to more people like Jessica, people who were fed the lie of gender transition only to regret their decision while suffering from severe bodily damage. It\u2019s a calling that God has prepared Matzke for all along. \u201cWhen God called me into this ministry… I felt the Holy Spirit impress upon my heart back then, ‘Heidi, you’re right. You have no idea what you’re doing, and that’s why you’d better be face-down before me every single day. You better be fasting and praying.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As pro-life pregnancy resource centers continue in their fight against abortion, one particular center is expanding its vision to helping visitors accept their God-given gender. Alternatives Pregnancy Center, based in Sacramento, California is a full-service health clinic with doctors who specialize in hormone therapy. 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