SouthernVoice.com – By Zach Hudson
Daphany williams-dubois can relate to just about anything. Still under age 30, the transgender author says that in her short time on earth she?s suffered through enough troubles and overcome enough obstacles that she earned the right to sing the blues. But she?s still looking for a happy ending, as evidenced in her book ?Emotionally Scarred: Monologues for the Soul in Us.?
Of course, not everybody shares Williams-Dubois? background. She was born male ? alongside a twin sister ? into a devoutly religious family of Jehovah?s Witnesses in Niagara Falls, N.Y. She secretly began the gender transition process in her teens but faced constant pressure from her family to put away her make-up and act masculine ? and straight ? instead.