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Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley
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Briel's relationship with Mormonism is complicated and she handles it carefully. She left at 19 — not because she has a problem with the church, she says, but because the church has a problem with her. She maintains a civil distance: attending family milestones, showing up for baptisms and weddings, but not as a participant in the faith. What she hasn't let go is her belief that she chose this life. A patriarchal blessing she received within the LDS system told her, she says, that before she came to earth she was fully aware of the body and trials she was signing up for, and she said yes anyway. That theology of pre-earthly consent has stayed with her as a framework for understanding everything that came after it.
Asked about the current political climate for trans people in the US, Briel is honest: it's scary, it's not safe, and nobody is winning. But she still has hope, believing society is at rock bottom and must go up. She refuses to bring children into this world as it currently stands.
