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Paula had a great childhood believing she was a girl. She dreamed of being a 50's-TV-style mom, just like Donna Reed and June Cleaver. Just like her own mother. When she was enrolled in a school that separated boys and girls, she faced the realization that she was a boy, and soon, the harsh realization; she was never going to be pregnant. After two devastating relationship with men, she discovered the love of another woman and her young child. As provider in the image of her father, she also raised her children in the traditional homemaker image of her mother. Tensions grew during the 28 year marriage until Paula was forced out of her home under allegations a transgender woman was unfit to be a mother. Despite overwhelming consensus that no judge would ever give her custody of her youngest son, Paula was unwilling to abandon him. As her own attorney, she fought a four year custody battle. Isolation and the economic and emotional stress combined with threats from the court drove Paula into a near suicidal depression. The love of her son prevailed. Paula regained custody while becoming the woman she had always know she was.

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Paula Overby is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis with a BA in psychology and a second major in computer science. After graduation, she worked in Germany followed by several years providing community-based mental health services, before entering her primary career as a systems quality analyst. Despite her successful career as a systems analyst, Paula's principle focus remained with raising her three children. She envisions the future through the eyes of her children, two daughters, and a son. She has experience in business management and briefly assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer for a laboratory technology startup. Paula is a community activist supporting the implementation of community programs for dealing with domestic violence and Intimate Partner Abuse. She is a trained advocate for victims of sexual violence. Paula has also served as a facilitator for groups of male survivors of childhood sexual abuse and is a qualified presenter for the AMONG MEN project, providing sexuality and relationship training for gay men. Paula served as an HIV community educator and also served on the board of directors for the Twin Cities Men's center. As a transgender woman, Paula has also been active in the support of the transgender community. The Transgender Myth is her first major publication on the issue of gender and transgender identity. Beginning in 2012, Paula served on three of the state standing committees for the Minnesota democratic party where she focused intently on outreach and inclusion for underrepresented groups. She was elected to the position of state director in 2013 by the state central committee. Paula sought the democratic endorsement for US House of Representatives in Minnesota's second district in 2014. That same year she continued the challenge, by accepting the endorsement of the Independence Party of Minnesota. In 2014, she was the first openly transgender woman to run for the US House of representatives. She ran again in 2016, increasing her percentage of the vote from 5% to 8%. Paula is a political organizer for the Minnesota minor parties coalition and the National movement for an independent people's party. She is currently running for US Senate in the state of Minnesota for the 2018 election in support of that movement.

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