He longs to live new life

Dear Abby:

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I am a 24-year-old born-again Christian. I studied for the priesthood but dropped out because I felt I wasn't good enough to serve the Lord while living a lie. I am now in training to be a male nurse.

The lie I am living is that I have always wanted to be a woman. I feel like a woman inside. I love all feminine activities cooking, sewing, decorating yet I am very athletic.

I was encouraged to try out for, the U.S. Olympic track team. (I broke many records in high school.) I detest hunting and fishing; never could I kill a living thing.

I am not a homosexual, but this desire to live as a woman is about to destroy me.

Where can I get a sex change operation? I will go anywhere. How much would one cost? I will save a lifetime, if necessary. I would rather be dead than go on living like this.

If the Lord really loves me, why did he give me a man's body with all the feelings and desires of a woman?

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RI

Dear Abby

Miserable in Maine

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Dear Miserable:

The Lord created all of us, and why He gave you a man's body, but the feelings of a woman, I do not know.

Nature sometimes makes biological blun ders, as is the case when one's body does not conform with his (or her) natural feelings. You are not alone. Don't feel guilty, one cannot help what he feels.

For information about sex-reassignment surgery and related problems, write to: Janus Information Facility, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. 77550.

Theirs is a non-profit help agency for people such as yourself, so please send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope for their reply, and tell them Abby told you to write. All correspondence between you will be strictly confidential. God bless..