Laurie Lee Hall: Dictates of Conscience

Join us for a reading with Laurie Lee Hall, and hear about her life and experience as a trans woman excommunicated from the Mormon Church.

This venue is wheelchair accessible and masks are required. ASL interpretation can be provided with 2 weeks advance notice.

About Dictates of Conscience

Laurie Lee Hall’s growing-up years were defined by the conflict between her physical condition as a boy and her inherent identity as a girl. Unable to explain or resolve her gender dysphoria, she committed to living her adult life as a male. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eventually becoming chief architect of its temples and an ecclesiastical leader. In her church and community, rigid adherence to gender roles is not only the norm, but the defining issue of a faith that doctrinally declares one’s gender as an “eternal identity.” Against this traditional backdrop, Hall finally received spiritual confirmation and personally accepted that she was transgender and always had been. In this remarkable memoir, Laurie Lee details how she risked everything to live true to her long-suppressed gender identity.

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