Help! Can I Choose My Own Gender?

Do I have a right to decide my own gender? What if my gender doesn’t match the way I feel? Does it really matter how I think about this issue? This mini-book explores these and other pressing questions relating to gender confusion. The timeless Word of God reveals that God has a lot to say about this modern issue. God does care about your gender and this book shows you why those answers matter.

The Bible has 1,189 chapters, and in the very first one God defines gender. Doesn’t this tell us something about its importance?

Resources

Help! Can I Choose My Own Gender Journal

Record impacting statements and write out your answers to the Questions for Reflection at the end of each chapter.

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My Tree (Gender Confusion)

Use this simple discipleship tool to get to the heart of your struggle with accepting what God says about your gender.

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Keeping Your Circles Straight

This study aim to help you identify and remember what you're responsible for and what God is responsible for, so you can keep your circles straight.

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Alternate Endings

This study explores the impact of choosing not to submit to God by imagining the result if certain Bible characters had not embraced the circumstances in which their author had placed them.

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Get to Know Your Author

Your ability to trust someone is based on how well you know them. This study encourages you to know God better so you can trust Him to be Who He already is—the Author.

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Renewing Guide: Sin in Me

We suffer as the result of our own sin. This resource provides a renewing guide for thinking biblically about God, your circumstances, and yourself in order to help you respond to sin and its consequences in a God-honoring way.

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The teen years are pivotal years in which young people seek to clarify their identity and determine the convictions, goals, and truths that will shape their lives. Addressing a range of topics that relate directly to the challenges they are facing, the LifeLine for Teens mini-books provide biblical wisdom to shepherd the hearts of teens. Simple, without being shallow. Succinct, yet full of truth—pointing teens to biblical hope and gospel encouragements. While teens are the target, these mini-books also prove helpful for anyone who desires to understand and minister more effectively to the next generation.

— Dr. Tedd Tripp

Teens struggle with constantly changing moods, overpowering emotional extremes, identity uncertainty, friendship conflicts, and paralyzing doubts about how God is relevant to their struggles.... These booklets will show not only the sufficiency of the Bible, but also its relevancy for the problems youth face today.

— Dr. John Street

About the Author

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Gracie Nelson

Gracie Nelson (MABC) is an ACBC certified counselor and middle school Bible teacher. She also counsels youth and young women at Heritage Bible Church in Boise, Idaho. Her deepest desire is to help the next generation and their parents to believe that God’s Word is sufficient to deal with every problem they may face.

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Publication date:

June 1, 2025

Pages: 64

ISBN: 978-1-63342-358-9

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“Unlike the many counseling resources we can find for adults, there are few directly relatable to teens and the issues they face. These mini-books bring the Scriptures to bear in a relevant way for both teens and those ministering to them.”
– Dr. Stuart Scott