Episode 307: Miles Selman, RM, Transgender Man, Homoromantic asexual, Active LDS

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

My friend Miles Selman, age 23 who served a mission in Portugal, shares his journey with long-term gender dysphoria. That dysphoria (or incongruence) led to a failed suicide attempt about a year after his mission and led to needing to transition to deal with/manage the gender dysphoria. In December 2019, Miles identified as a transgender man and took on he/him pronouns. Miles has both a deep testimony of our restored Church and a conformation from his Heavenly Parents that he is male. He doesn’t want to live without either of those truths and is moving forward the best way he knows how as a transgender Latter-day Saint. Miles also identifies as a homoromantic asexual and explains that for our listeners. Thanks for being on the podcast Miles. You are strong and courageous. Thanks for your service in Portugal and your future contributions help others to Christ through our restored Church. You have a great life ahead of you!

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.9	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Miles Selman.
0:14.0	Welcome to the podcast, Miles.
0:15.8	Good to be here.
0:17.4	We're going to talk about Miles' journey as a transgender man and also a romantic asexual.
0:26.0	We appreciate our listeners hanging in there with us as we transition to a better soundboard,
0:32.3	and we should have that fixed.
0:35.3	We also appreciate all of you that are connecting with the book that I wrote
0:39.3	called Listen, Learn, and Love, Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. It's available at Amazon.
0:45.9	I encourage you to order the book, share the link with others. You can find it on Amazon under my name
0:51.8	or type in Listen, Learn, and love. The book isn't too much
0:56.0	about me, but it's about our LGBTQ, Latter-day Saints, and amplifying their voices so we can
1:02.3	better meet their needs, which is the purpose of this podcast. Miles is somebody that reached
1:08.1	out to me on Facebook Messenger a while ago, and we had a phone call,
1:13.4	and we felt it was a good time for Miles to share his story. When anybody kind of comes to my home,
1:19.3	I'm recognizing they're probably a little nervous to do a podcast. We say a prayer. I do a little bit
1:25.2	of a background, and then we just start recording. Miles is 23.
1:31.3	He's a transgender man, so I'll be using he, him pronouns. He is active in the LDS church. He
1:39.1	has felt gender dysphoria his whole life. Really didn't have vocabulary for that until he figured
1:47.8	that out after his mission. Miles served a mission in the Portugal-Spain mission from 2016 to
1:56.1	2017. That was before he identified as a transgender man, so he served as a sister missionary.
2:02.5	It was Portugal, Lisbon.
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