The Rev. David Weekley told the congregation of Epworth United Methodist Church a secret Sunday that he’d kept for 27 years: Almost a decade before his ordination journey began in 1982, he’d undergone counseling and several surgeries and became a transgender man. The atmosphere inside the small Southeast Portland sanctuary, with its eight rows of wooden pews, was silent as Weekley, 58, married and the father of five adult children, described his earliest memories.

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