1690: Gender Dysphoria & Mormonism - Amanda & Shaye Scott Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: Suicide Ideation
For Part 2 we come back to Shaye and Amanda's story after Shaye returns home from his mission. We learn how Shaye got involved in film with Mormon music group "The Piano Guys," their early issues with infertility, Amanda's schooling and career and the class (and book) that started her slowly on the path to finding out the real history of her belief system.
We also take a deep dive into Shaye's growing dysphoria into their marriage how that developed into severe internalized transphobia, which extended to the whole LGBTQ community as a whole as even allyship felt too "close" and "dangerous" to the secret he was trying to keep buried.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host |
| 0:04.3 | John Dillin. It is November 1st, 2022. And we are here in part two of what I think is |
| 0:11.2 | a really important, powerful and inspiring Mormon story with Amanda and Shay Scott. Hey, |
| 0:18.6 | guys. Hi. Welcome back. How was lunch? It was great. Wonderful. Today's lunch was brought |
| 0:25.0 | to you by Harman's note. And Margie, you're here joining us. Hey, Margie. Hi there. Thanks for |
| 0:30.4 | being here. Yes. We just finished part one, almost a three-hour episode with Amanda and Shay. |
| 0:37.1 | Shay talked about growing up Mormon in the St. George area and loving a lot about his Mormon |
| 0:43.2 | experience as the one of nine or ten children in an Orthodox Mormon family. Shay shared with us |
| 0:50.4 | his experience growing up as a Mormon assigned male at birth experiencing gender dysphoria and what |
| 0:56.4 | that was like. He also talked about going on his mission to Ohio and meeting Amanda when they were |
| 1:03.3 | in high school. Amanda also was raised in the St. George area. She talked a lot about her Mormon |
| 1:09.3 | upbringing with the mom who worked outside the home, but also where she learned a lot about |
| 1:15.2 | people pleasing and perfectionism as a young Mormon woman, specifically focusing on the performing |
| 1:21.5 | arts and singing and music. And she moved into literature when she got to BYU. But where we left |
| 1:28.6 | off, I guess Shay had gotten home from his mission, they got married when Amanda was what, 19, |
| 1:33.7 | and Shay was 21, 22, something like that. Yeah. And they were starting their early marriage. |
| 1:40.4 | And that's kind of where we left off. So today we're going to be talking about Shay's gender |
| 1:45.0 | dysphoria and how that progresses into their marriage. And after we're going to be talking about |
| 1:50.8 | Amanda's career, ultimately becoming a professor of English literature and what it was like to work |
| 1:56.5 | at BYU Idaho when you no longer had a temple recommend. We're going to be talking about their faith |
| 2:01.7 | journey and questioning and doubting Mormonism. And also their professions, specifically we mentioned |
| 2:09.7 | that Shay was one of the founders at least as sort of an executive producer with the piano guys |
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