738: Kimberly Anderson's Journey from Living 45 Years as a Mormon Man to Living Openly as a Woman Pt. 4
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Part 4: Kimberly shares the impact her transition had on her Mormon life, and shares her vision of the future
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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| 0:50.9 | Before we talk about what you're doing about the future, can you share what all |
| 0:56.9 | this did to your Mormon faith? And if it's a process, talk about that. |
| 1:03.9 | So for someone his shelf was broken as a teenager and who tried to constantly |
| 1:09.3 | rebuild it for 40 years, 45 years and having it be re-broken over and over again, |
| 1:16.1 | not by myself but by the institution that I was trying to be part of, I honestly |
| 1:21.4 | think that the church broke my shelf. I didn't bring my shelf. The church's version |
| 1:26.0 | of God broke my shelf. The church's version of a man who speaks for God broke my |
| 1:30.6 | shelf over and over and over. So at some point I'm going through the motions of |
| 1:40.5 | church activity. I was a choir director for four wonderful beautiful years. I |
| 1:46.6 | loved my word choir. We had a wonderful talented group of singers in our |
| 1:53.2 | award who gave me their best and I tried to give them my best and the Christmas |
| 2:01.4 | programs that we did and the Easter programs that we did are some of the highlights |
| 2:04.3 | of my church membership. Wow, I didn't think I was going to go there today with |
| 2:10.8 | the choir. I love being the choir director and I was a damn good choir |
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