
Actually, it turns out this woman has an interesting story of her own
http://www.aegis.org/news/misc/1992/tr921001.html
It's been a hell of a ride. Sister Mary Elizabeth, in her 54 years, has been both witness to and product of the passionate controversies that forged the the latter half of the American Century. In 1957, as a stalwart Cold War-generation Southern Baptist, she went to Memphis, Tennessee to teach electronics at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, submarine warfare division, and saw first-hand the meanness of segregation and the birth of the civil rights movement. The year 1968 found her in Vietnam, flying missions into and out of Tan Son Nhut and Cam Ranh Bay. In '88 she was at the heart of a sexual politics scandal that nearly capsized the Anglican order that she had co-founded, the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. For the past three years she has worked with and served men and women held hostage to AIDS. Ultimately, her unique take on the world was formed by two matters at once personal and public; her steely devotion to Jesus Christ and her physical transformation via sex-reassignment surgery.
"Don't write about that," she says from her office in San Juan Capistrano. "Don't write about me -- I'm not the story. My work is the story."
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