The Rev. Paula Williams has known for almost her entire life that she was a woman.
For a while, she believed a “gender fairy” would come and change how the world saw her from boy to girl. But the fairy never came, and Williams hunkered down in the lie.
When she did come out as a transgender woman, Williams lost her job, her TV show and her megachurch preaching gigs, not to mention friends and even some family.
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