Sy Rogers grew up in a family fractured by sexual abuse, abandonment, and dysfunction. Molested as a child and rejected by his father, Sy developed deep confusion about his identity. By his twenties, he was living as a transgender woman and had scheduled sex reassignment surgery. The patterns of abuse and broken identity in his family seemed to be reaching their inevitable conclusion in his own life.
A Cycle Nobody Talked About
The sexual brokenness in Sy's family was a secret everyone carried but nobody addressed. Abuse had been passed down silently — the abused becoming abusers, the broken producing more brokenness. Sy's own identity crisis was not an isolated event but the latest expression of a generational wound. He described his life as the culmination of everything that had gone wrong in his family for decades, concentrated into one person.
A Turning Point Before Surgery
Just weeks before his scheduled surgery, Sy was invited to a church service by someone who had no idea about his background. During that service, he experienced God's Presence in a way that dismantled every lie he had believed about himself. He did not hear an audible voice. He did not see a vision. But something shifted at the deepest level of his identity. He cancelled the surgery. He walked away from the life he had been living. And he began a journey of healing that would take years of honest, difficult work — but the generational cycle of sexual abuse, identity confusion, and relational destruction stopped with him.
A Life of Wholeness
Sy went on to marry, have children, and spend decades helping others navigate similar journeys of healing. He was transparent about the fact that wholeness was a process, not a single event — but that the decisive break happened in that church service when Jesus intervened in the generational pattern. Sy passed away in 2020, leaving behind a legacy of thousands of people he helped walk into freedom.
What This Means for You
If sexual abuse, identity confusion, or relational dysfunction have been recurring themes in your family, Sy's story is evidence that the cycle can end. Not through willpower or therapy alone, but through an encounter with the God who designed your identity and has the authority to restore it.