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Monica Helms, transsexual Navy veteran

Started by Shana A, October 05, 2009, 06:53:10 PM

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October 05, 2009, 06:53:10 PM
Monica Helms, transsexual Navy veteran
'There were a lot of things that got in the way of me realizing what I was'
Published 10.05.09
By Patrick Saunders

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/monica_helms_transsexual_navy_veteran/Content?oid=1101224

Editor's note: First Person is a series of commentaries that give voice to those not commonly heard in Atlanta media.

After growing up a "typical boy," marrying "the one" and fathering two children, Monica Helms finally acted on a lifelong desire to become a woman.

Sometime around the age of 4 or 5, I knew something was different about me. I was raised Catholic and you're supposed to pray to God for things. So I prayed to God to turn me into a girl. I finally got to do it 41 years later, so I guess for God that's like overnight delivery.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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