A Car Wreck Cemented This Trans Woman's Faith

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        A Car Wreck Cemented This Trans Woman's Faith
    L.A. District Attorney Jessie McGrath explains how atheism isn't compatible with her life.
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          May 21, 2018
          
        
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Many in the LGBT community are cynical about religion and the existence of a higher power. Jessie McGrath is not one of those people.

        
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A Car Wreck Cemented This Trans Woman's Faith

L.A. District Attorney Jessie McGrath explains how atheism isn't compatible with her life.

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Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

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“The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice," the Afghanistan War veteran and former transportation secretary said.