739: Mormon Transgender Experiences
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
In this episode John and Margi interview four individuals who are transgender and either active LDS or former LDS. Our panelists for this interview are Kimberly, Ann, Emmett, and Augustus. We discuss:
*What it was like growing up in the LDS Church
*What effect bullying and life in the “closet” had on them
*How the panelists see transgender people fitting (or not) into LDS Church doctrine
*“Trans-erasure” in the Church where lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities receive more focus and attention; therefore, transgender issues are less understood
*How they were treated when they attended church as their authentic selves
*Things they would like the Church to address with their transgender members
We thank our panelists for sharing each of their unique stories and for bringing light to the Mormon transgender experience!
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| 0:48.4 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am a co-host |
| 0:55.4 | John DeLin and I am joined as always by my brilliant wife. |
| 1:00.4 | Thanks babe. Who are you? Margued DeLin. Thanks to C. U.L. |
| 1:04.4 | We're very, very excited to have you all with us today. It is April 25th, 2017 and |
| 1:12.0 | we are really, really excited for our panel today. Today we're going to be |
| 1:17.4 | talking about the topic of transgender and intersex sort of education |
| 1:25.0 | within a Mormon context. We have a really wonderful panel with us. As always |
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