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Transgender Mormons struggle to feel at home in their bodies and their religion

April 2, 2015 |

One Sunday, in October 2013, Jensen announced her transgender identity to a Springville LDS singles ward bishop and asked if she could attend church.

” ‘I don’t know anything about being a transgender Mormon,’ ” she recalls him saying, ” ‘but it’s my job to welcome you..’ ”

The Springville experience was richer than the worship she knew during her youth, she says, because she could “be in tune with the Holy Spirit.”

Quotable Quotes on Being LGBT/SSA and Mormon

March 28, 2015 |

Need some affirming quotes to share with family and friends? These should help, as we all know that…“Few topics are as emotionally charged or require more sensitivity than same-sex attraction. This complex matter touches on the things we care about most: our basic humanity, our relationship to family, our identity and potential as children of God, how we treat each other, and what it means to be disciples of Christ.”

Preparing for Conference

March 28, 2015 |

By Tom Christofferson

Some may have already decided that they no longer desire to participate; some may be taking an approach of listening on tenterhooks, dreading the moment when they have to grit their teeth, knowing that the longest addresses are only twenty minutes, most are fifteen or twelve. In order to listen, we need to free our minds and hearts of a focus on past challenges and wounds in order to enable ourselves to be fully present to hear and feel what will be said.

Preparándonos para la Conferencia

March 28, 2015 |

Para poder escuchar, debemos liberar nuestras mentes y corazones de un enfoque en retos pasados y heridas para poder ser capaces de estar presentes y escuchar y sentir lo que será dicho

The spire of the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

How will you choose to react to what might be said during General Conference?

March 28, 2015 |

We can listen and then decide how to act upon what we hear.  We don’t have to accept everything at face value and we don’t have to approach it with an all or nothing mentality.  We can blend our own spiritual experiences with what is said and then figure out what we will take and what we will leave behind using our agency and personal revelation.

Apóstoles responden sobre Afirmación, libertad religiosa y derechos LGBT

March 22, 2015 |

Apóstoles mormones se reúnen con periódico en Salt Lake City para discutir la aplicación de los principios enseñados en la conferencia de prensa sobre la Libertad Religiosa y los derechos civiles de la comunidad LGBT.

Finding My Way Forward as a Lesbian Mormon

March 22, 2015 |

One day it occurred to him that he’d never thought to ask God how He felt about his being gay. He prayed with that question and described his experience in his story. I immediately dropped my book and finally asked God what His thoughts were about my life.

A Mom Gets Involved

March 15, 2015 |

I’d never been involved in political causes and had never been to a political rally in Utah. That changed after 2011 when my son Grayson discovered that he was FtM transgender. I was horrified to discover that it was still legal to discriminate against my child because of his gender identity, or against others because of their sexual orientation.

Paula Ison 2014 Affirmation International Conference

Video: Paula Ison at the 2014 Affirmation International Conference

March 8, 2015 |

Paula Ison shares about her experience coming to know God’s love for her as a transexual woman. “Being transsexual is hard enough under any circumstances. Being transsexual in an active LDS family, like I was, was obviously that much harder.”