‘My husband and I are living, breathing, walking testimonies that what the world gives is so much less compared to the fullness of what you can have in Christ.’
“I Was Gay, She Was Trans” was the title of a June 2024 episode of The Michael Knowles Show that has garnered 6,300 comments. Knowles, a Catholic commentator at The Daily Wire, called the life experience of Nicholas and Lex Renick “one of the wildest stories I’ve ever heard.”
Now both in their late twenties, the couple were “married” as husband and husband in Las Vegas in 2020. Nicholas came out as a homosexual in high school. Lex, a female, began identifying as a male and calling herself Austin in middle school. She began hormone treatments at age 18 and got a double mastectomy two years into their “marriage.”
But the Renicks had completely renounced the LGBT lifestyle and returned to their God-given identities by the time they were interviewed by Knowles. They not only had a six-month-old daughter, but Lex was also pregnant with a second daughter.
Lex Renick appeared on The Lila Rose Show in January in a two-hour episode called “From Testosterone to Three Under Three: Lex’s Journey of Gender & Sexuality.” She gave birth to the couple’s first son on Feb. 7.
Based in Tennessee, the Renicks are today committed Christians who use their Revive Traveling Ministry to share their personal stories and encourage LGBT people to redirect their lives toward authentic Christianity. Lex has 168,000 followers on Instagram and 89,000 followers on Facebook.
She has lamented in recent social media posts that her “top surgery” robbed her of the ability to breastfeed her children, whose birth she considers a miracle and a testament to God’s mercy. She did not menstruate for the seven years she was on testosterone but conceived her first child within three months of getting off the male hormone.
“Please seek healing before surgery. Because one day you may long to nourish a child with a body that no longer can,” Lex wrote on Facebook on Feb. 11. While her body is still producing some breast milk, it cannot be expressed due to the removal of both breasts.
“I live forgiven. I live redeemed,” she wrote. “But I also live with the reminder that some decisions leave permanent marks. And I pray with tears in my eyes today to save someone else tomorrow.”