🪔 Katherine

Covenant Daughter of God | Latter-day Saint (Mormon) | Father of 8 | Los Angelena | Californian | Republican | Apple Fan Girl | 80s New Waver | Author

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Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of publishing my book, "TransLucent: How I put off my natural man and found a spiritual woman."

This book is not Trans 101, or a how-to guide on being transsexual or transitioning, or an explanation of gender ideology. (I know. Boring, right?) So what is it about?

Well, I was sitting outside the October 2022 General Conference and had an epiphany when President Russell M. Nelson said the following,

“Overcoming the world is not an event that happens in a day or two. It happens over a lifetime as we repeatedly embrace the doctrine of Christ. We cultivate faith in Jesus Christ by repenting daily and keeping covenants that endow us with power. We stay on the covenant path and are blessed with spiritual strength, personal revelation, increasing faith, and the ministering of angels. Living the doctrine of Christ can produce the most powerful virtuous cycle, creating spiritual momentum in our lives.”

This was the best summation of what my book was about. I won't claim to have overcome the whole world. Maybe a continent or two. And an island. Maybe Greenland.

It's the events God wanted me to write to tell how I as a transsexual Latter-day Saint lived my faith over a lifetime. How I kept my covenants, stayed on the path, and was blessed. It's how my testimony of the truthfulness of His gospel and Church was forged and strengthened. It's my small plates to always remember.

And if you think that's not possible for someone like me, or perhaps just curious, then I'd invite you to read and find out.

Enjoy!

Clicke here:
https://t.co/5dBy5fqLhL

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@mzppvhofho16214 @wokeandwoofing Even if Switch was opposite sex, I don’t believe that makes the series a transgender experience.

So did the gender swap in the latest Jumanji movies make them a transgender experience too????? Has anyone claimed that?

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I'm curious which group he's walking with.

I've walked in the parade twice. It's definitely an experience. And probably the best way to see Pride because you only get to see what is in front of you. 🤣But I got to meet Charlie Bird.

So I haven't been to SLC Pride in many years. It was interesting to go being transsexual and initially sort of feel like I was with my people.

But what I realized after going a couple times was I had no connection to these people. They didn't have my values. They weren't my people. The people on the pews in church on Sunday were my people. They were who I identified with and were the people I wanted to be with.

Still transsexual. Still very much LDS.

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Yeah, I remember when the Wachowski sisters dropped that interpretation. I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now. I can say as a transsexual that I don't see any of the trans experience exhibited in the movies. BUT I see plenty of Christian messianic themes that were obvious from day one.

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There was a time when I knew all the Mama Dragons. These women were a mother to me, but all of them have sadly left the Church. In fact almost all the LGBT people I've ever known have left the Church.

So the problem I see is how do you measure suicidality of LGBT members when there are so few LGBT members? They don't stay long enough to be surveyed.

I was in a ward a few years ago where a trans teen girl took her life. Within a week or so, the family abruptly moved out. I was one of a select handful who even knew what happened. This family is not going to answer this survey.

And dealing with my own suicide ideation and attempts as an LGBT member, I can say that it's our doctrine that makes it really easy to end the enduring. Why? Because we don't have a HELL. We believe in grace. We believe in an afterlife. We believe in a forgiving Savior who loves us.

There are times I get so frustrated trying to live in this world as a transsexual woman. The ability to end the struggle and live as a woman in the afterlife is very tempting. (Those that disagree, whatever.)

This is why the Church has taught not to tell gays and lesbians that when they die that they will be made straight and the struggle will end. That is very tempting and many our most marginalized have taken that exit.

I don't think most members realize how truly hard it is to stay as an active member when you are LGBT.

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Trevor demonstrates again his ideology and not reality.

When same-sex marriage was legalized, the push was for birth certificates to include Father/Father and Mother/Mother.

The push for the abominable “gestating parent” comes from the non-binary crowd. Overwhelmingly women who don’t want to be identified as men or women. So they erase women from our language. Their own sex.

This is why you get “uterus owners” and “chest feeders” and “gestating parent” is because of spicy straight women. Not gays. Not lesbians. Not trans women. Women.

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@PeacemakingSt Women did it all the time. But I was at the UofU.

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@Ironlynx87 @defense_of_fam But do they know Threads of Glory? That was peak patriotism.

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@ThisMomSaid https://t.co/Tqx8lCnwPm

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Well I haven’t been for the potentially obvious reason that I don’t live anywhere near Massachusetts.

I’m sorry, what would be obvious about you? I know many gay men in the church that are married to women who get support from groups. Just come out of the closet. 😉🤪

Maybe you could contact the facilitator and find out what they are doing and get us a report? It’s possible the church is doing a trial of a program that if successful might be rolled out everywhere. Or it could be something the Stake created. I know of at least two people who have created unofficial materials for stakes to use in training.

But the problem I see is that the sexual orientation people are struggling with something completely different from the gender identity. You can’t lump them together in a meaningful way.

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@hifihedgehog @jeremiahrjones It’s actually church policy in the handbook on your phone that the bishop and stake president can petition the area president for authorization for a trans woman to attend RS. I’m just going to assume they followed that direction and it was approved.

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@kremlincardinal Hugs are always good.

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I think there’s an assumption in the title that members actually love the people leaving. Probably true for families.

But the attitude I see most prevalent on LDSx is “They were tares. Good riddance.” They don’t want sinners, or progressives in their church, around their families. Their leaving is to be encouraged. They don’t want to listen to their heresy.

From my personal experience, my ward ostracized me over 9 years ago. I tried to stay for over a year, but left to attend other wards that were friendly and welcoming. In the interim, my ward has done nothing to invite me back or show that they would treat me better. They’ve never once talked to me to understand. They blamed me for being different and difficult. So I’m good to attend elsewhere.

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@goud4utah @MarinasHammer @RepubliKate Estrogen is $5/mo. Get a clue.

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You’re leaving out the second parable of the woman and the lost coin.

Sometimes we need to clean up our houses, figuratively , in order to find what we’ve lost. The prodigal son knew that his father’s house was a safe place to return. If his father’s house wasn’t “clean” he wouldn’t have returned.

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@_sky_sorensen_ @Deseret Well, as I like to say, “Better to be a goddess in eternity than a queen for day.”

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@_sky_sorensen_ @RealNetjes And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how we ended up with 67 genders. 🤪

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Oh, maybe it wasn’t like “wrong,” but my current mindset is so so so much better, thank you.

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@BenBird53920553 @JordanSorensen9 I met the prophet Enoch at a church dance in Holladay, or so he claimed according to his Patriarchal Blessing. Said he would be working with the church on how to prepare for the return of his city.