740: Alex Autry - Transitioning from female to male as a post-Mormon teen

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Mormon Stories, we continue our series on Transgender/Intersex education within Mormonism by interviewing Alex Autry. Alex discusses his transition from female to male as a post-Mormon teen, including:

His early feelings and experiences with gender as a child
His upbringing in the LDS Church and feelings of disconnection while involved in Young Women’s activities
The constant desire to receive the Priesthood along with all the other boys
How his strong and orthodox testimony served as a barrier to confronting his gender identity
The feelings of relief when his family and schoolmates accepted his identity
Leaving the LDS Church along with his family
His beliefs now and his vision for the future

We are grateful to Alex for sharing his unique story and for shining a light on the transgender experience within the Mormon context!

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0:46.6	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John
0:50.9	Delin. It is May 1st, 2017 and we are very, very excited and honored to be able to
0:59.0	continue our series on the transgender experience or transgender experiences
1:05.8	within Mormonism and post-formatism. We've already interviewed Kimberly Anderson.
1:10.8	She has been amazing. We also did a panel with four transgender
1:17.2	individuals last week and we're going to continue that this week with my
1:21.8	interview with Alex and then tomorrow with my interview with London. So I'm just
1:26.8	really thrilled. So happy to be doing this live. We've got 32 people joined us so
1:31.2	far on Facebook live. We want to welcome you all and invite those of you joining
1:36.3	us live to feel free to share your comments and questions and we'll try and get
1:41.6	to those as we can throughout the show. I'll just, in my way of introducing Alex,
1:48.3	Alex, you are 16, is that right? That's correct. I met Alex and his
1:54.2	wonderful parents when I went to Kansas City to visit the Kansas City Oasis.
1:59.4	Alex and his parents were attending the Kansas City Oasis and I learned of
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