737: Kimberly Anderson's Journey from Living 45 Years as a Mormon Man to Living Openly as a Woman Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Part 3: Kimberly details the sacrifices required when she made the decision to transition
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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| 0:51.0 | So you have the two kids and you're active in the church, your career, sounds like |
| 0:57.5 | you are a super successful photographer, journalist. I was a B-lister. What does that |
| 1:04.3 | mean? I was never an A-lister, I was never star, I was always picking up the |
| 1:08.1 | breadcrumbs from the big players. No, but you told me you did photography for |
| 1:12.3 | Mercedes-Benz, Land Rover. I did all kinds of fun jobs for all kinds of great clients. |
| 1:16.5 | Give us a sense for some of the... Oh, so drove to the top of... drove all through |
| 1:23.3 | Canada for a week and a half, photographing for Toyota and for ARB, a company |
| 1:26.9 | from Australia. Photographing for all these off-road magazines, tons and tons |
| 1:34.0 | of studio product for companies that made winches and shock suspension systems |
| 1:38.3 | and just all kinds of fun product for the off-road, aftermarket off-road community, |
| 1:43.9 | tons of stuff, a company called Warren, W-A-R-N, I photographed their location |
| 1:49.6 | work and their studio work for years and had a blast flipping jeeps over, |
| 1:56.8 | getting things muddy, breaking parts, rescuing people from being stuck. I flipped |
| 2:04.7 | two Land Rovers over on their... it's two of my own personal vehicles on their |
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