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Amy Hamilton has been a social worker, a Fulbright scholar, a Sexuality Research Fellow, and an Assistant Professor. She currently works as a research associate at UT-Austin and writes on topics related to marriage, faith, gender, and sexuality. Her most recent work focuses on transgender-identification and transgender medicine.
Amy’s story has given hope to many through sharing her transformation in Christ. Her journey of same-sex attraction and identity confusion, combined with her academic knowledge, gives her a voice of unique authority in the contentious cultural conversations of the day.
Latest Articles
My Father Gives Me Bread: What the LGBTQ+ Community Needs from the Church
“If it’s wrong, You’ll have to show me another way, because I just can’t see it.” At nineteen years old, I uttered this prayer at God, closed my Bible, and turned my face away. Amid my experiences with lesbian relationships, I was questioning Christian teaching about same-sex attractions and sexual behavior. Many Christian leaders—from Catholic Synod participants to…
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Ideologically Driven Sexology: Tools for Building “The Sexual World We Want”
From its earliest inception, the pioneers of sexology set out not simply to study and discover what is, but also to change what is to align with what they thought should or wanted to be. While we can objectively study the anatomy and physiology of the sex organs or seek to understand the mechanisms of reproduction, when going beyond basic facts, researchers inevitably collide with challenges to being “neutral observers.” Each of us brings values and worldviews to the subject of any study, especially the study of sex.
Our surveys peep through the keyholes of the world’s bedrooms…
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Seven Things I Wish My Pastor Knew About My Homosexuality
Over thirty years have passed since same-sex attraction rushed up from deep within my twelve-year-old frame. This attraction was unbidden and unwanted, yet simultaneously forceful and compelling.
As a Christian, the conflict between my sexuality and my faith would become the deepest and most intense of my life. Now in my forties, I’ve gone from…
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Articles by Amy (as Jean C. Lloyd)
The “Respect for Marriage Act” Will Harm Children
October 2022
The law is a teacher, and the “Respect for Marriage Act” is a bad one. Enshrining legal lies about the truth of marriage harms all of society, most especially children…
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Monkeypox, Sexual Health, and the Limits of Medical Technology
Aug 2022
Our culture seems to think that almost no behavior is off limits, no matter how dangerous or even deadly, if engaged in for erotic reasons. We’ve forgotten the harsh…
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Suicidal Sweet Sixteen: A Reflection on Trans Youth Medicine
Sept 2021
Today, white-coated professionals tell parents of children with gender dysphoria: affirm your child’s trans identity right away or prepare for suicide. Are those really…
Read More at Public Discourse
Activists Amplified Transgenderism To Kids
April 2021
The whirlwind we now reap is filled with the fragmented identities of our sons and daughters who will acknowledge themselves to be neither…
Read More at The Federalist
Insuring Rights for “Wrong” Bodies
January 2021
As a recent British court decision correctly affirmed, the puberty blocking treatments being given to gender-dysphoric young people constitute experimental medicine…
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Why a Generation of Girls Is Fleeing Womanhood
August 2020
Abigail Shrier’s new book is an outstanding investigative report on the diagnostic craze of rapid onset gender dysphoria that has swept over adolescent girls…
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Pressing Pause on the Global Transgender Youth Pandemic
June 2020
Before Covid-19’s pernicious spread, another health phenomenon had reached epidemic proportions and is still occurring on a global level. Unlike the virus…
Read More at Public Discourse
From Christians Formerly Identified as LGBTQ: “Thank You”
October 2019
I want you to know that your opposition strengthens and encourages people like me—Christians who have struggled with same-sex attraction. When we see Barronelle…
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Become A True Trans Ally: Walt Heyer’s Trans Life Survivors
March 2019
By sharing the stories of real people suffering real pain and struggling with enormous regret, Walt Heyer enables us to gain the first thing a person seeking to be…
Read More at Public Discourse
as Amy Hamilton
Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Law: Justifying Harms to Religious Minorities with Ideological Science
November 2022
In early December, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and petitioner Lorie Smith, thus hearing a reprise of many of the arguments from its 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop decision in the case of Jack Phillips against Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA). Once again, CADA is being weaponized…
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