Edward Kelly, Jr. is a former Pentecostal Fundamentalist minister. He lives in Bellevue, Nebraska and works as a case manager at Heartland Family Service.
Imagine this scenario: Stephan had made the appointment with her primary care doctor as a last resort. She had recently developed a habit of delaying seeing a doctor until the symptoms became overwhelming, and the symptoms now were unbearable, so she called. But she knew they would say the same thing. “Stephan, we still do not have a legal change of name. We have you as Stephen.” They just would not recognize her gender nor her name.
It was one big hassle. And when they came out and called her to go in, it was always the same: “Stephen.” She would walk up, and they would announce to the doctor, “Stephen is here.”
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