Episode 699: Kristine Coons (transgender) and her wife Laura (cisgender), Active LDS

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

My friends Dr. Kristine Coons (Internal Medicine Physician, RM) and her wife Laura (mother of four, BYU grad) join us from Hawaii where they are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary to share their remarkable story. Kristine talks about her long-term gender dysphoria and coming out her wife in 2014. They talk about their “lifeline” of communication and the gospel to help them stay committed in their marriage and to navigate this road. Laura talks about supporting her wife as she transitioned and saw first-hand their improvement in her life. They both talk about how they are and continue to be soulmates. Their story is a beautiful love story. Kristine talks about digging into the science of gender dysphoria and discovering through genetics that she has congenital hypogonadotripic hypogonadism (CHH) and how they helps explain how she feels. Kristine also shares her suicidal plans and how she got help (including calling the suicide crisis line) and how she is now in a much better place. This is a powerful podcast to better see, understand, and support transgender Latter-day Saints. I was so moved listening to Kristine and Laura. “When we know better, we do better.” Thank you, Kristine and Laura, for being on the podcast. You two are awesome and are helping us better create Zion. Links: 60 Minutes Episode: youtu.be/1Rw2cfXxnwE?si=nLrYzMuIUVjHjv_j Kristine’s YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@KristineCoons?si=akQ7hjSfchtJtcKN More about CHH: www.genomicseducation.hee.nhs.uk/genotes/knowledge-hub/congenital-hypogonadotropic-hypogonadism/ Latter-day Stonecathers FB Post: www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid031CaN5MDFdpANwe2sgv1CG1gg4a5gioRqEFQT5ucgkiH93X3yRJ7NNjqYzRG7SVaAl&id=100091855963860 Other Trans Podcasts: listenlearnandlove.org/transgender-and-more-podcasts LDS Church Website: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/transgender Ministering to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1433556613672143 Richard Ostler Books: www.papaostler.com

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.3	On my guests on today's podcast are a married couple.
0:14.6	I'm Dr. Christine Coons and her wife, Laura.
0:17.6	Welcome to the podcast.
0:19.5	Hi.
0:20.1	Thank you. We're going to talk about Christine's,
0:24.3	and she is a doctor. We'll talk about that journey with gender dysphoria. And she has come out as
0:31.6	transgender and as state in her marriage. So she uses she, her pronouns that refer to each other as wife, because that's the
0:41.6	way they look at each other. And they're both active in the church. And so this is a story to help us
0:48.2	as Latter-day Saints and beyond better support transgender Latter-day Saints. And I felt that's best. I'm
0:54.1	hearing directly from transgender Latter-day Saints. And I felt that's best. I'm hearing directly from transgender Latter-day Saints.
0:57.2	And Christine's really brave to be on the podcast.
1:00.5	We've interacted for a couple of months.
1:02.0	I think it was Monica Phillips.
1:03.7	He's been on the podcast a few times that knows your story
1:07.7	and thought it would be terrific for you to be on the story.
1:10.9	Christine and Laura met at BYU.
1:14.7	Pretty typical story of falling in love and getting married.
1:18.6	Christine served a mission in Phoenix, Arizona.
1:22.8	Laura got a degree in food science.
1:25.7	Christine went on the long journey to become a doctor of internal
1:31.0	medicine that includes med school residency and you've walked this road together. They are celebrating
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