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'You can be who you are.' Ducks organist Lindsay Imber shares her transition journey

LOS ANGELES — Before she could be legally recognized as the person she always knew she should be, before she could enjoy the life she was meant to live, Lindsay Imber had to navigate rows of bureaucratic hurdles to establish who she has become.

Imber's transition from male to female, launched when she began receiving hormone treatments in June, accelerated during the summer when she filed a court order to change her name and her gender, registered her new information with Social Security, and with that done, applied for a new driver's license. Getting that card was a momentous step toward fulfilling a need she had felt before she could

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