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Searching their souls: Can church include transgendered?
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January 13, 2010
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DignityUSA
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<img alt= src=/sites/default/files/images/transgender2.gif style=margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: right; width: 72px; height: 63px; />It began innocuously enough when the incoming priest at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Student Center at Drake University noticed a piece of paper on a copy machine in the parish office.</p>
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On it was a counselor's authorization of hormone therapy for a transgendered person about to undergo a sex change. On a letterhead that included the center's name and address.</p>
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What came quickly after is changing a community:</p>
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<a href=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100110/NEWS/1100335/Searching-their-souls-Can-church-include-transgendered target=_blank>Rest of the story can be found in the Des Moines Register</a></p>
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