Adelheid Sonnenschein’s book Als transidente Frau bin ich von Gott YAHUWAH geliebt: Ich wurde als transidente Frau geboren! (As a transgender woman, I am loved by God YAHUWAH: I was born a transgender woman!) is a deeply moving testimony of faith, identity, and resilience. It is not a work of fiction or detached philosophy but a living confession, a chronicle of survival and divine connection told by a woman who has faced the cruelties of ignorance yet found an unshakable belief in the love of her Creator. In her book, Adelheid invites readers into the spiritual and emotional landscape of a transgender woman who has endured violence, misunderstanding, and rejection, but has never lost her sense of being loved by God.
She begins by confronting one of the most persistent misconceptions in society, namely the belief that transgender people are somehow “not right in the head.” To her, such prejudice only proves that many people have never truly engaged with the topic. Too often, society’s judgment blinds it to the suffering that trans people carry in silence, a suffering that can lead to depression and even suicide. Transphobia, she writes, adds another layer of pain, breaking not just spirits but bodies, and in her case, the violence was literal. She recalls being beaten so severely that she was left close to hospitalization, an experience that captures the brutality that far too many trans women endure.
