I'm actually still in a mormon household and have to deal with queerphobia pretty regularly. I've come to really hate the church for all the lies it perpetuates, especially about someone like me. idk how much to say here, maybe when I've left I'll make my own video or something lol, but honestly I really do wish that mormons could learn to actually care about people who don't fit the mold outside of telling them to just fit it, which isn't caring. this was definitely nice to see. thanks for the video
I'd love to see your break down of the toxic behaviors from the church. My oldest sister served a full mission. I want you to know, she popped a disk, it started calcifying and SEVERING her spinal cord. My sister could have been perinatal disabled because she "perservered" through the pain of mission work and that is NOT okay.
Thank you for this video. I'm watching this behind my mothers back. I wanted to watch this because I have been struggling for a while and nobody but my online friends understand. In 2020 I discovered I was Nonbinary and it made sense but it was a heart crushing realisation. My online friends who are members of the lgtbq community and everyone else are still helping unpack my internalized transphobia. I have grown up in the Mormon church and got baptised when I was eight years old. I was born in the church so my beliefs are very strong and alot of the adults have watched me grow. It hurt so much because I realized that although my faith is strong I will never be accepted into that faith as I don't fall in line with their idea of gender. I also won't be accepted because I'm Pan And Ace and they want me to have kids and spread norms. I'm still closeted as I'm so terrified lose those connections and need support. I need and want to be myself. They're forcing me to choose between my identity something I can't change and my faith. It's so difficult but I can't wait when I can leave subtly. I have them all fooled, nobody at church not even my mum fully knows what I'm going through. My mum is forcing me to continue to go to church events like shes mad I didn't tell her about a Seminary graduation I wasn't gonna go to. So I'm going to get therapy and address my religious truama and i feel like my religious trauma is literally manifested in Din Djarin from Star Wars. Thank you. Melody They/Them
I was raised in a primarily Mormon area of Utah. my atheist mom lived with my homophobic grandparents for a while, who would try to make us believe in god too. I'm a trans girl but no one knew because I was a little bit of a tomboy anyway. I wasn't exposed to too much homophobia or transphobia because no one talked about it and there weren't many openly gay people around, but I remember my mom arguing with my grandma after gay marriage became legal about some "end of the world" bullcrap that God would cause to cleanse the world of gays. that was the first time that I found out that people thought being gay was bad somehow. the only time that I really experience any kind of transphobia was because of a play that I did in 3rd grade where I played the part of a girl, and my grandpa couldn't stop telling me how terrible it was that someone would make me do this (I volunteered) and how he would take his hair down immediately when he would get home from school if he was made to do this. it was not fun to deal with at the time, but looking back on it, it's kinda funny to think about how mad he was even when he only knew about the pigtails. like, this 90-year-old man who struggled to walk spent a good 30 minutes going back and forth between 10 seconds of yelling at me and then just walks out of the room to think of more things to say to me for 5 minutes before he walks back with another 10-second response before he even knew about the dress. but those were the only two times I ever experienced homophobia or transphobia in my childhood other than the occasional "that's gay" insult that the kids just threw around.
It's really interesting hearing the perspectives of other people who have left a church and realized that they're queer. I grew up without any religion at all, but I was so brainwashed by my two years in the church between 2014 and 2016 that when gay marriage was legalized, I was sad. I regret so much of that now. One of the kids in our youth group got in trouble for saying "lesbian." That's when I started to understand that I didn't want to be a part of it anymore. Still wondering if there's a gay church out there somewhere that would like to have me lol
I’m member of the LDS church and I agree that homophobia and transphobia is something that we need to work on. Luckily I’m in a ward that understands that everyone’s paths are different and we shouldn’t judge others at all or try to force standards on others and we all can choose what to do with our lives. I’ve heard though that some wards are pretty judgemental. I’m hoping our church president will speak more on LGBTQ in the future cause I know many people in the church who are LGBTQ and I myself am an ace. Also we don’t go by the name Mormons anymore. Our president wants us to be called “The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” so that everyone knows we’re more Christ focused.
Happy to see you uploading again. 😍 only found your channel recently but you quickly became one of my favorite individuals to see you the youtubes. 😝 (Even turned my youtube notifications back on for the first time in like 6 years) keep being awesome I hope you reach the 10k goal!😁
I'm a member of the church and haven't come out yet except to friends, some of which are apart of the LGBTQIA+ community. Seeing this and having the lies the church teaches verbalized and outed is nice as I have been thinking about how the lies affect us. I'm a demigirl and I haven't addressed my feelings of not feeling fully female until now. Figuring out I am a demigirl was a long and researched time. Before thinking I am demiromantic and asexual (still haven't quite figured it out) I thought I was lesbian or even bi and I came out to my mom who in return, said she didn't believe it. By the time she told me she didn't believe it, I had changed my thoughts on who I was attracted to. I find it hard to listen when members talk about the roles mothers and fathers play in a family. The beliefs of the church are long since due for change. I've read their bit son the LGBTQ community and it only addresses lesbian, bi, gay, and transgender people. I'm very happy to find that there are other members out there in the LGBTQIA+ community. I have also found allies, such as one of the fellow young women in my ward. At least, I suspect she is as she is "an ally of those that seem different."
Oh my gosh... 😳 dysphoria hoodie... 😱 It's not just a me thing!? I've done that my whole life and not even realized that that's what I've been doing until this moment. It makes so much sense. I was today years old.
Heyy welcome back!! I think some people can relate to some points from the video, at least I do. Oh and a little something, when you react to other peoples videos maybe make the vid you blend in a bit bigger. It's just my opinion you don't have to it of course. Have a great rest day!!🏳️🌈😊
I didn't know whether or not I was actually non-binary. A remnant of that exploration is my gender-neutral name I chose: Dakota. But I emerged as a trans woman.
im a member of the church too but in latinoamerica and when i see videos of exmembers in america i feel like we are talking about different churchs lol its so different here
I'm trans woman and I'm Mormon. It's very hard to be Mormon and being trans. I just wanted to be me and be normal. I love who I'm going to be. I'm a daughter of good.
Do you have a Tiktok account? I’d love to be friends with you over on there and be able to support you. I’m genderfluid AFAB. (@anaveragemuppet if you’d like to make friends)
@@lynnsaga1397 what’s your username on there? I’d love to support you. You can go live at 1K, get the creator fund at 10K and get the advertising deals at 100K. I’m at almost 70K in just over a year. I know you could smash Tiktok and be so successful. Xxx
I'm actually still in a mormon household and have to deal with queerphobia pretty regularly. I've come to really hate the church for all the lies it perpetuates, especially about someone like me. idk how much to say here, maybe when I've left I'll make my own video or something lol, but honestly I really do wish that mormons could learn to actually care about people who don't fit the mold outside of telling them to just fit it, which isn't caring. this was definitely nice to see. thanks for the video
I'd love to see your break down of the toxic behaviors from the church.
My oldest sister served a full mission. I want you to know, she popped a disk, it started calcifying and SEVERING her spinal cord. My sister could have been perinatal disabled because she "perservered" through the pain of mission work and that is NOT okay.
Thank you for this video. I'm watching this behind my mothers back. I wanted to watch this because I have been struggling for a while and nobody but my online friends understand. In 2020 I discovered I was Nonbinary and it made sense but it was a heart crushing realisation. My online friends who are members of the lgtbq community and everyone else are still helping unpack my internalized transphobia. I have grown up in the Mormon church and got baptised when I was eight years old. I was born in the church so my beliefs are very strong and alot of the adults have watched me grow. It hurt so much because I realized that although my faith is strong I will never be accepted into that faith as I don't fall in line with their idea of gender. I also won't be accepted because I'm Pan And Ace and they want me to have kids and spread norms.
I'm still closeted as I'm so terrified lose those connections and need support.
I need and want to be myself. They're forcing me to choose between my identity something I can't change and my faith.
It's so difficult but I can't wait when I can leave subtly. I have them all fooled, nobody at church not even my mum fully knows what I'm going through. My mum is forcing me to continue to go to church events like shes mad I didn't tell her about a Seminary graduation I wasn't gonna go to.
So I'm going to get therapy and address my religious truama and i feel like my religious trauma is literally manifested in Din Djarin from Star Wars.
Thank you.
Melody
They/Them
I was raised in a primarily Mormon area of Utah. my atheist mom lived with my homophobic grandparents for a while, who would try to make us believe in god too. I'm a trans girl but no one knew because I was a little bit of a tomboy anyway. I wasn't exposed to too much homophobia or transphobia because no one talked about it and there weren't many openly gay people around, but I remember my mom arguing with my grandma after gay marriage became legal about some "end of the world" bullcrap that God would cause to cleanse the world of gays. that was the first time that I found out that people thought being gay was bad somehow.
the only time that I really experience any kind of transphobia was because of a play that I did in 3rd grade where I played the part of a girl, and my grandpa couldn't stop telling me how terrible it was that someone would make me do this (I volunteered) and how he would take his hair down immediately when he would get home from school if he was made to do this. it was not fun to deal with at the time, but looking back on it, it's kinda funny to think about how mad he was even when he only knew about the pigtails. like, this 90-year-old man who struggled to walk spent a good 30 minutes going back and forth between 10 seconds of yelling at me and then just walks out of the room to think of more things to say to me for 5 minutes before he walks back with another 10-second response before he even knew about the dress.
but those were the only two times I ever experienced homophobia or transphobia in my childhood other than the occasional "that's gay" insult that the kids just threw around.
I’m so happy for Emmett!! He went through so much! You keep doing what you’re doing, Lynn. You’re helping a lot of people.
It's really interesting hearing the perspectives of other people who have left a church and realized that they're queer. I grew up without any religion at all, but I was so brainwashed by my two years in the church between 2014 and 2016 that when gay marriage was legalized, I was sad. I regret so much of that now. One of the kids in our youth group got in trouble for saying "lesbian." That's when I started to understand that I didn't want to be a part of it anymore. Still wondering if there's a gay church out there somewhere that would like to have me lol
Aaaaa I'm so glad you made that video, thank you so much! I'm a queer with a religious abuse trauma so it means a lot for me. Xoxo and a lot of love
I’m member of the LDS church and I agree that homophobia and transphobia is something that we need to work on. Luckily I’m in a ward that understands that everyone’s paths are different and we shouldn’t judge others at all or try to force standards on others and we all can choose what to do with our lives. I’ve heard though that some wards are pretty judgemental. I’m hoping our church president will speak more on LGBTQ in the future cause I know many people in the church who are LGBTQ and I myself am an ace. Also we don’t go by the name Mormons anymore. Our president wants us to be called “The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” so that everyone knows we’re more Christ focused.
Happy to see you uploading again. 😍 only found your channel recently but you quickly became one of my favorite individuals to see you the youtubes. 😝
(Even turned my youtube notifications back on for the first time in like 6 years) keep being awesome I hope you reach the 10k goal!😁
I'm a member of the church and haven't come out yet except to friends, some of which are apart of the LGBTQIA+ community. Seeing this and having the lies the church teaches verbalized and outed is nice as I have been thinking about how the lies affect us. I'm a demigirl and I haven't addressed my feelings of not feeling fully female until now. Figuring out I am a demigirl was a long and researched time. Before thinking I am demiromantic and asexual (still haven't quite figured it out) I thought I was lesbian or even bi and I came out to my mom who in return, said she didn't believe it. By the time she told me she didn't believe it, I had changed my thoughts on who I was attracted to. I find it hard to listen when members talk about the roles mothers and fathers play in a family. The beliefs of the church are long since due for change. I've read their bit son the LGBTQ community and it only addresses lesbian, bi, gay, and transgender people. I'm very happy to find that there are other members out there in the LGBTQIA+ community. I have also found allies, such as one of the fellow young women in my ward. At least, I suspect she is as she is "an ally of those that seem different."
Good luck with your 10k Pride Month goal!
Oh my gosh... 😳 dysphoria hoodie... 😱 It's not just a me thing!? I've done that my whole life and not even realized that that's what I've been doing until this moment. It makes so much sense. I was today years old.
I didn't grow up Mormon but evangelical and I just relate so much to what you said in this video. I would love to hear you talk about it more :)
Heyy welcome back!! I think some people can relate to some points from the video, at least I do.
Oh and a little something, when you react to other peoples videos maybe make the vid you blend in a bit bigger. It's just my opinion you don't have to it of course.
Have a great rest day!!🏳️🌈😊
Hey I wanted to ask you im lds and identify more as a she/they I wonder how non binary fits within religion or how family members have reacted 🤔
I didn't know whether or not I was actually non-binary. A remnant of that exploration is my gender-neutral name I chose: Dakota. But I emerged as a trans woman.
im a member of the church too but in latinoamerica and when i see videos of exmembers in america i feel like we are talking about different churchs lol its so different here
Yaaaaaa so glad you are doing better now. I love your content and thank you for being you
I'm trans woman and I'm Mormon. It's very hard to be Mormon and being trans. I just wanted to be me and be normal. I love who I'm going to be. I'm a daughter of good.
My only question is how long have you been on antidepressants? I have seen a correlation with gender diisphoria and antidepressants.
Welcome back. :)
I hope you get to 10k!
Ok.
Heyooo
Do you have a Tiktok account? I’d love to be friends with you over on there and be able to support you. I’m genderfluid AFAB. (@anaveragemuppet if you’d like to make friends)
I do have a tiktok but I don’t really use it much😶
@@lynnsaga1397 what’s your username on there? I’d love to support you. You can go live at 1K, get the creator fund at 10K and get the advertising deals at 100K. I’m at almost 70K in just over a year. I know you could smash Tiktok and be so successful. Xxx
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