Episode 598: Emma Edwins, Convert, Transgender Latter-day Saint

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Richard Ostler

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4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

My friend Emma Edwins (Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy; Licensed Clinical Counselor) shares her remarkable story. Emma starts with her decision to join the Church while in college in Colorado. Emma then talks about why she left the church (for about ten years) and then talks about addressing her gender dysphoria—which led Emma to legally, socially, and medically transition to a woman. Emma talks about how much happier she is since transitioning—and how she longed to return to the Church. Emma, who lives in St. Paul Minneapolis, talks about her decision to go back to Church and the warm welcome she is receiving from her Ward, including attending Relief Society. Emma talks about why she decided to go back to Church and her testimony of our restored doctrine. Emma also talks about the challenges transgender Latter-day Saints face—including her desire to attend the temple, which is currently not possible. Emma has a You Tube channel called Stories of Latter-day Faith (see link below) which features conversion stories of people joining the Church. Please reach out to Emma if you’d like to share your conversion story. Thank you, Emma, for being on the podcast. You are a remarkable woman doing much good in many circles. Honored to have you on the podcast! You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcGpe-zLbY Email address is: [email protected] Instagram: @the_mindful_mormon ** Please Check Out My LGBTQ Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773 ** Want to develop church-supported LGBTQ activities in your local area? Please join our FB group below ** https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433556613672143

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.0	My guest on today's podcast is my new friend Emma Edwins.
0:13.6	Welcome to the podcast, Emma.
0:16.3	Thank you.
0:16.9	I'm glad to be here.
0:18.7	Emma sent me an outline.
0:20.4	I felt impressed just to it's about seven-point outline, so I thought
0:23.9	I would read the outline for you, so you could kind of get an idea of the content of this
0:29.0	podcast. First, Emma's going to share a little bit of her history with the church and her
0:34.7	conversion, and then she's going to share a little bit about why she left the church.
0:39.8	And she was gone for about 10 years.
0:42.6	And then she's going to talk about her time away from the church, including her decision to
0:47.6	transgender, to transition, sorry, genders.
0:52.6	And Emma identifies as a woman, transgender woman.
0:57.5	Is that okay, is that okay vocabulary, Emma?
1:00.3	Yep, it does.
1:01.5	And then she's going to talk about her work and LGBTQ advocacy, as well as her decision to go back to grad school and become a therapist to work with the
1:11.3	LGBTQ population. Emma lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has finished her master's of
1:17.6	marriage and family therapy and is a licensed clinical counselor. Then, that's kind of a whole
1:24.3	podcast right there, but it's not over, listeners. Then she's going to talk about her decision.
1:30.8	Oh, no, I've missed a bullet point here.
1:32.7	She'll talk about the medical research that's been done about medical transitions and the outcome on mental help.
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