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Sacramento pregnancy center adds care for patients seeking to detransition
Alternatives Pregnancy Center in Sacramento says it helped Jessica Rose seek to detransition.
Rose is a transgender woman who told the center’s executive director, Heidi Matzke, that she was biologically female and wanted to return to living as a woman.
The faith-led center helps women with unplanned pregnancies and also operates a full-service women’s health clinic.
Rose said her doctors had abandoned her and that she needed medical care.
The center says it provides hormone therapy as part of its women’s health services.
Matzke said she saw helping Rose as a response to her Christian faith and prayer.
The account does not say what treatment Rose received or describe any further plans.
Alternatives Pregnancy Center in Sacramento has added care for patients seeking to detransition.
The faith-led center is also a full-service women’s health clinic with doctors who specialize in hormone therapy.
Executive director Heidi Matzke said the decision followed a request for help from Jessica Rose, a transgender man who said she was trying to detransition.
Rose told Matzke her doctors had abandoned her and she had nowhere to go.
The center’s approach, Matzke said, is based on listening to the Holy Spirit.
- Who
- Alternatives Pregnancy Center and executive director Heidi Matzke. The patient described in the article is Jessica Rose.
- What
- The Sacramento pregnancy center provides care to patients seeking to detransition.
- When
- The article was published on November 8, 2026. The date the center began providing this care is not stated.
- Where
- Sacramento, California.
- Why
- Matzke said the center’s actions were guided by the Holy Spirit, after Rose asked for help accessing women’s medical care.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Matzke took over Alternatives Pregnancy Center and said she knew she needed help.
Matzke gave a short talk at a church and met Rose, who asked for help with medical care.
Fox News published its article about the center’s care for patients seeking to detransition.
- Center
- Alternatives Pregnancy Center
- Location
- Sacramento, California
- Executive director
- Heidi Matzke
- Patient described
- Jessica Rose
- Clinic services
- Full-service women’s health care; doctors specialize in hormone therapy
What people are saying
What you don't know about me is that I'm biologically female, and I encountered Christ. The Holy Spirit has done work in my heart, and I am now trying to detransition. But my current doctors have basically abandoned me and I have nowhere to go.
When God called me into this ministry ... I felt the Holy Spirit impress upon my heart back then, 'Heidi, you're right. You have no idea what you're doing, and that's why you'd better be face-down before me every single day. You better be fasting and praying.'