Detransitioner Shares Journey from Gender Struggle to Faith in Jesus
It’s been two years since social media influencer Oli London officially detransitioned and embarked on a faith-filled journey toward true peace and joy.
“Life has changed very dramatically,” he recently told CBN News. “I wake up every day with a sense of purpose, a sense of duty … I feel a lot happier every single day.”
London, who has openly spoken about his Christian faith, said it has been “exciting” exploring his newfound belief in God. Raised as an atheist, he said he wasn’t “too familiar with Christianity.”
But since detransitioning two years ago, he has spent a lot of time in Christian spaces.
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“I’ve been going to a lot of Christian events, been going to churches, connecting with people in the Christian community and elsewhere,” he said, noting he’s now trying to live out Jesus’ example. “And I’ve been tremendously happy since then.”
But it’s not just faith that has been the centerpiece of London’s changed life. He’s now become an advocate speaking out to help others struggling with the issues that once dominated his life.
“Since … I detransitioned, I’ve also been trying to use my platform now to try and do good in the world,” he said. “And try to spread faith as well to the Generation Z audience.”
Considering London’s own back story, he expressed a passion for young people “being led astray” today.
“They are not connecting with God,” he said of youths. “God is being taken out of classrooms in some places, and … I think it’s something that the young generation is missing.”
London has been open over the past two years about the detransition process, reaffirming past expressions that it wasn’t the easiest of journeys, especially after years of attempting to present as a female.
“I underwent a lot of surgeries over a period of 10 years,” he said. “I was going through an identity crisis, so I did spend several hundred thousand on the surgeries, the looks … the clothes, all the fillers, the makeup, everything like that.”
London continued, “And … it is something I regret, but, at the end of the day, I think … it is a lesson. You can’t dwell on these regrets, you can’t dwell on the past.”
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