Growing Up Transgender in the Roman Catholic Church (Digital; PDF file)

Until recently, I lived much of my life hiding who I truly was. Growing up in a Catholic world that was not always kind to people like me, I learned to suppress my true identity in the name of faith and family. For decades, I felt torn between the woman I knew myself to be and the role I had been forced to play to survive. But now, in my eighties, I have found the strength to live the life I had always dreamed of but never thought possible.

In this richly engrossing memoir, Patricia tells the story of her life, from birth to rebirth.