REPOST with update: Jennifer's story going viral- The Privilege of Dignity ~~ RIP Jennifer Gable~~

Update: Jennifer's story is now gaining traction in traditional media. Please help keep her story alive!

Miami Herals

Washington Times

Daily Mail
Jennifer Gable, a 32 year old Boise woman, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on October 9th, 2014. Although I never met her, she was my wife's friend of several years. They would share goofy conversations that Jennifer would take over with endless movie quotes and her fun personality, but they also shared some very sad conversations when my wife would try her best to talk her out of her darkest moments.

Jennifer had a lot of struggles. She was born male and transitioned to Jennifer in her twenties. Her family would not accept her and turned their back on her. This is a pain that I can't truly imagine- that one's own parents could so hate the person that their child becomes, for such superficial reasons.

One would hope that, at least in death, a family could accept the person that passed as the whole sum of their parts. But even in death, that would not be true for Jennifer. When her body was transported to Twin Falls, Idaho for her funeral and burial, her family cut her hair, dressed her in a suit, and buried her as a man.

They cut her hair.

They dressed her in a suit.

And they buried her as a man.
THEY BURIED HER AS A MAN.