I realized that I had been hoping my body would tell me who I am or confirm something about my identity. But this hope was empty from the outset because we are made in God’s image.
It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
The stress of figuring out his plans for the future was getting to be too much for this high schooler … until he turned to the Bible and Science and Health for answers.