736: Kimberly Anderson's Journey from Living 45 Years as a Mormon Man to Living Openly as a Woman Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Part 2: Kimberly tells about her LDS mission experience, her marriage, and having children
Kimberly Anderson is a self-actualized woman who has made the change from living for 45 years as a Mormon man to living openly as a woman. Before her transition, she lived, worked, and thrived for decades as a spouse, parent of two children, faithful Mormon, professional photographer, and university professor (BYU, UVU, Snow College).
Kimberly has a BA and an MFA from Utah State University, has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally as a professional photographer, and has work in various collections throughout the Intermountain West. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University, Snow College and Utah Valley University. She is the founder/photographer for the Mama Dragons Story Project which was recently featured on Mormon Stories Podcast.
This interview kicks off a 4-part series on Transgender/Intersex education within Mormonism.
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| 0:52.6 | And at this point, you know, I've decided to go on a mission. I did have a really |
| 0:58.0 | really good cultural experience on my mission. I had a lousy spiritual experience |
| 1:03.3 | on my mission, but I went to South Korea and I love anybody that knows me, knows |
| 1:09.1 | I love South Korea. I've been back there twice more as a journalist working. I |
| 1:15.6 | have interviewed North Korean refugees that have escaped to South Korea and that |
| 1:20.1 | these people's plight in North Korea is near and dear to my heart. I eat Korean |
| 1:26.1 | food all the time. I had a wonderful, I shot over 3,000 slides on my mission, |
| 1:33.3 | which you know, you're not supposed to do. Boxes and boxes and boxes of slides. |
| 1:40.0 | Had a great experience on my mission. Yet at the same time, I was completely |
| 1:46.3 | invalid as a human being. I was ignored as a spiritual creature. Nothing in |
| 1:51.7 | anything I ever owe. And okay, so this is kind of a fun story. I'm serving |
| 1:56.0 | in a little tiny branch on the coast of South Korea and a little tiny squid fishing |
| 2:00.3 | village called Jumongje. And my companion is a Korean elder who was the branch |
| 2:08.3 | president. So the nickname that they gave the companions of the branch |
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