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Why I am a Christian and more
My confession and faith
Martin Luther, the Gospel, and I
The most important day of my life
The problem of God: part one
The problem of God: part two
Did God create transgender? (1)
Did God create transgender? (1a)
Did God create transgender? (2)
The question of sin (1 of 4)
The question of sin (2 of 4)
The question of sin (3 of 4)
The question of sin (4 of 4)
What if I’m wrong?
Is THIS sinful? How about THAT?
What happens when we die?
When God says NO
When God said NO to me
Stop talking about your faith!
Is God punishing LGBTs?
Are LGBT people pedophiles?
Transgender prejudice in the LCMS?
Using the past to inform the present
Harmful transgender discourse
Harmful transgender discourse (II)
Harmful transgender discourse (III)
“Transgender Christian: An Oxymoron?” – 5 seminar videos
I love the LCMS
The LCMS and transgender acceptance
More LCMS unhelpful info on gender dysphoria
More LCMS narrow trans views
More LCMS narrow trans views
LCMS and gender dysphoria (1 of 2)
LCMS and gender dysphoria (2 of 2)
Reply from the CTCR
More LCMS transgender misinformation
Catholics fall short on gender dysphoria
Another brick in the wall
LCMS 2019 convention resolution on gender identity
LCMS 2023 convention overture on “transgenderism”
Dear LCMS: transgender is not like making a Chevy into a Ford
“Chevy into a Ford” follow-up
“Chevy into a Ford”: a ray of hope
Two more rays of hope
Letter: transgender and the Church
Sex
Two-faced Christians
So you won’t bake a cake for a gay wedding
So you won’t bake a cake (2)
Christmas
Epiphany 2023
Ash Wednesday 2016
Ash Wednesday 2018
Ash Wednesday 2021
2nd Lenten Wed 2021
3rd Lenten Wed 2021
4th Lenten Wed 2021
5th Lenten Wed 2021
6th Lenten Wed 2021
Maundy Thursday 2016
Good Friday 2016
Good Friday 2019
Good Friday 2024
Good Friday, and my own death
Good Friday’s “I love you”
Easter 2016
Easter’s “I love you”
Ascension Day 2016
The End Times (Israel’s war, 2023)
Who am I?
When I tried to put Gina away
The power of clothes
The tipping point
The bear trap
I love you, but…
Return “I” to “love you”
“We’ll figure it out”
G to G transitioning diary
Court of approval
Name change day
Name change day, take two
Give me an F!
My wonder-week
Making “Gina” legal
Transitioning: part two
Transitioning: two perspectives
Dear healthcare provider
SRS surgeon visit
Surgery is a game-changer
“How can you?!”
Sex and sexuality questions
SRS post-op-servations
First post-op check-up
Recovery? It’s a piece of cake!
One month post-op; the hellish parts
SRS: six months post-op
Post-transition crash
Facial feminization surgery
My face surgery, with lots of pictures
My new face: all of me!
My new face: brow
My new face: lips
My new face: neck
Vocal cord surgery
I also got breast implants
Therapy
Therapy: I’ve arrived
I was transgender: I have no regrets
A sex change-of-heart
Sex change regret?
Neither proud nor ashamed
Apparently, I am not a Christian
Apparently, I was an abused child
Barb the Impaler
100 hours!
Transitioning: part one
Bathroom liberty for all
Transphobia and bathrooms
To Lila Perry
Toward understanding gender dysphoria
Let’s suppose it is a mental illness
The autism connection
The thalidomide connection
Scholarly article on gender dysphoria
First family funeral
First family reunion
Podcast: “The Trials of Gina Eilers”
My interview on Protect Your Noggin
Indianapolis Monthly article
Making radio waves
Brain and body
What makes a friend?
When I was a white man
The transgender suicide problem
41%
What I hoped to achieve by attempting suicide
Suicide is not painless
I am a real person
She was a real person
Ernest Hemingway’s transgender son
The crooked-smile girl killed herself
Real life test
Not happy, but healthy
Gina deepens as Greg lessens
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
The more I change . . .
One year as Gina
August 19, 2015 and 2016
August 19, 2015/16/17
August 19, one last time
Ten Years Later
Intersex birth certificate
“I have another patient like you.”
Using HRT to remain male
Update on Robert
Robert had a double mastectomy
Not in my wildest dreams
I am Gina
Born in the wrong…
Please, use my name
Born this way?
“Transgender Identity—Wishing Away God’s Design,” a reply
To Matt Walsh
“My New V—– Won’t Make Me Happy”
Happy to be transgender?
Make good use of suffering
I look at men
Transitioning is grueling
My life as a chick
My chick life II
Another Gina first
Two Gina firsts
One more time: it’s NOT a choice
How do you react?
How will you react?
The worst reactions
Prejudice
Lifestyles of the trans and middle class
Understanding for the trans’ spouse
“I don’t want to talk about it!”
“I don’t understand”
Bruce Jenner and I
How can you?!
Proof: Trans is a mystery
Is anyone asking “Why?”
Julie speaks
My daughter speaks
My sister speaks
Moms contact me the most
How to tell others of your gender issues
Talking transgender with children
Children talking transgender with parents
Concern for children transitioning
A father of a trans child responds
2015: Year of transitions
2016: Year of new horizons
2017: The culmination (1)
2017: The culmination (2)
2018: Goodbye, Gina; hello, Greg
2019: 3 unthinkable things
2020: eventful even without a pandemic
2021: a novel approach
2022: in the books
2023 and me
Hormones: one month update
I had a secret
Who is my true self?
I am at another crossroads
Five years after the miracle
Content as a guy
Yup, it’s hormones
Meet a trans person: Colleen
Kimberley Beregrove: kindred spirit
Peter (Kimberley) Beregrove update 7.17.23
Trans Ed 101: dead name
Trans Ed 101: drag queens
Trans Ed 101: facial hair
Trans Ed 101: passing/blending
Trans Ed 101: rude questions
Trans Ed 101: sex and gender
Trans Ed 101: the pre-trans life
Trans Ed 101: transsexual
Still a trans advocate (1)
Still a trans advocate (2)
Still a trans advocate (3)
Ten Years Later
1/14/81
15 big ones
60!
4931 Wilcox Street
A bittersweet 25th anniversary
A lesson in my tomatoes
A letter to my brother
Ann Schubring: faithful, feisty, fabulous friend
Another Port Hope tragedy
#billandmelindagate
Bob Agnew: his eternal gain is our great loss
Burning down the dump
Certain birthdays
Christmas as a kid
Christmas as an adult
Clowning around
Dear Mom
Don’t fear lasagna!
Eilers Pizza
Eilers Pizza: 6th anniversary
Engraved history
“Field of Dreams” and magical feelings
50 years ago: age 17
First date
40 years ago: my son’s death changed me
Forty years of running
Gina Drey: unsung star
Ginny’s great idea
Going green; hold the envy
Gr-egg casserole: my latest creation!
Greg & Julie: an improbable love story
How I published my novel
How I write novels
I am a dishwasher convert!
If Die Hard is a Christmas story…
“I’m going to sue!”
In the land of few masks
Iowa 2019
I returned to deer camp!
It’s a pasta hash bash!
“Jasper!” BLASSSTTT!
“John Z” – available now!
J. John Eilers’ autobiography
Julie’s humidifier hack
Ken Schave: let’s be like him
Make your own vanilla extract
Mass shooting in Indianapolis
Meet Aunt Mabel
Meet Grace Todd
Meet Hart
Meet Julie
Meet Ken Bush
Meet Mike Block
Meet Montague
Meet my dad
Meet my first wife
Meet my mom
Meet my sister
Meet Rev. Walter Teske
Meet Russ Eilers
Meet the Eilers farm
Meet Tim Todd
Memorial Day
Michael Schave—one of a kind
Mission: Montague
Mitch Albom
Montague three-reunion vacation
Mrs. Pike: thanks for the lesson
My breakfast burrito recipe
My brother and my son
My brother Jim is 65!
My burger-freezing hack
My favorite potato soup
My fourth novel: available now!
My Indianapolis Monthly article: Feb 2016
My most unique run ever
My most unusual baptism
My POST-IT war failure
My proposal to Julie
My resume revelation
My second novel: available now!
My toilet paper disaster
My week in Charles Town WV
One Christmas . . .
1,000 miles in 2019!
One year sober
Pastorized
Ponch!
Rail-Trailblazer
Remembering Bernie
Remembering Larry Foster
Remembering our dear Gerri
Remembering Uncle Bob Vogel
Retro Christmas
Sad partings
Sautéed veggie delight!
She-Nana-gans with Lou and Puppy
Shirley Dorland—matriarch of Port Hope
Shopping with a thankful heart
Snapshots of Sue
Spotify: ten years in
Stress, anxiety, and depression
Suicide and salvation
Susan Mary Eilers Poynter
Switch-swinger
Thanksgiving reflections on Julie
That happy little boy
The final breath
The first thing I do
The podcasts of my life
The Supper Log
The time I needed a member to forgive me
30th anniversary: the day my life changed
Todd Pharmacy: my 50th anniversary
Tomatoes: freeze ’em quick and easy!
Trans Iowa trip
Trans Iowa trip III
20/happy vision
Virginia Finkel—stalwart of St. John
Vonna Leckband: a celebration of her life
Vonna Leckband: an extraordinary person
Walk! Jog! The benefits are many!
When my mom had to give up her son
You took care of me
Whitehall Cottages: a dandy boutique motel
Would you help me find my birth mother?
Wrong restroom!
You’re from where???
May 3, 2016
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2016-04-29 10.11.45
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