Laurie Lee Hall was excommunicated from the Mormon church for being a woman. At least, thatâs how Hall sees it. The former LDS stake president, who oversaw a group of Mormon congregations in Tooele for eight years and worked as an architect on her faithâs most sacred spaces, faced, in her mind, an impossible choice: Either return to living as a man or resign her membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Giving up her female identity would cause grave damage to her physical a... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>