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How to be an Ethical Transsexual:
1) Be at least 18 years old and not have a criminal history of violence, sexual assault, etc, etc.
2) See a mental health therapist, or maybe more than one, for many months, maybe even years, if necessary. This is not just an hour visit.
3) Receive a diagnosis of complete gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder. Not just one or two criteria, but ALL of them. With no significant comorbidities.
4) Demonstrate sincerity and potential passibility by living full time socially transitioned and be successfully accepted by others.
5) Take cross-hormones and report satisfaction with both the physical and mental results.
6) Have sex-reassignment surgery of your primary genitals. Full commitment.
7) Change your legal sex on all your government documents.
8) Behave, you’re still a guest. You have no natural rights. You only have been granted legal rights that can change. Don’t abuse the privileges.
There is no such thing as non-binary.
There is no self-id. Gatekeeping with high standards is good for safe-guarding both the patient and society from harm.
There is not currently sufficient evidence for “girl/boy brain” or innate gender identity. But even if there was, I doubt it would ever be enough to claim natural rights. It’s all about the gametes.
While taking cross-hormones does change cellular functions and modify the body and brain structures, it still doesn’t change your sex. And neither does surgery.
However, collectively having “girl/boy brain”, taking cross-hormones, and having surgery all contribute to being a person who can successfully assimilate and be considered for extension of legal rights.
Steve Jobs lamented later in life that he was so mesmerized by the GUI at Xerox Parc that he failed to appreciate the networking and object oriented programming.
So Elon, you bought the satellite frequencies from EchoStar, but you let AT&T buy their cellular frequencies and you also didn't buy Echostar's Boost cellular infrastructure?????
You would already be a major mobile carrier with 80% coverage.
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
Oh, tell the rest of the story. Oh wait, you don’t know it, right?
(Apparently, I can’t comment on this thread. @FreedomMomUSA)
You can’t tell about how after I started dating the girl who I would marry that I told her I was transsexual, that I had “girl brain,” and that I wanted to live my life as a woman, already having grown my hair out way past my shoulders.
And what did she do? She dumped me. She said, “I kind of suspected.” And she told her father. And what did he say, “Sometimes girl spirits and up in boy bodies and you don’t want to marry someone like that.” Smart father.
But we eventually got back together 6 months later. And she helped me transition. We went shopping and she taught me how to buy clothes and style my hair and do makeup. And within a short time I had no male clothes. I’d wear something androgynous to work and then come home and change into something more femme. And maybe we’d go shopping, or out to dinner, or to a movie, or maybe just go out walking.
Fast forward several years, after I bought a house, she asked me to marry her in three weeks. She scheduled the Salt Lake Temple. I still had long hair and wore women’s clothes all day everyday. We even bought matching negligees for the honeymoon.
Fast forward a couple more years after our first kids were born, she told me that I needed to detransition because the kids were thinking they had two mothers. She told me when the kids were adults that I could retransition.
What is it that TransWidows always say, “They always wait till you’re trapped with kids.”
So facing unspecified consequences, I reluctantly detransitioned after 10+ years. I served in the EQ Presidency and the Bishopric, but after 15+ years in the closet I couldn’t take it anymore. I told her it was time for me to start retransitioning.
For a few years, we tried to keep my retransitioning private so no one knew, especially the kids. But after I started taking hormones she told the Stake President. He threatened me with excommunication if I had surgery. And she told the two oldest kids, and they moved out of the house into an apartment.
And then the Stake President told us the policy that I could transition publicly and still be temple worthy, so I told the rest of the kids. Soon after she decided to file papers for divorce to keep the kids safe from her disgusting husband who wore a dress (some she made for me.) I still made sure she was financially secure.
So she doesn’t like people to know that she dated, broke up, and dated for 6 years a transsexual woman who she helped transition, and that she proposed to get sealed together for eternity in the temple, and had children with.
Maybe in hindsight she should have listened to her Father. But that’s not as exciting of a story as I just decided to troon out and destroy my family, right? That I abandoned them?
No such thing. I gave her the house next door so I could still see my kids. And I pay for practically everything.
No sure. He eventually stopped going to the ward he was in when he abandoned his family and started living like this. So that’s where my knowledge ends. I’ve heard this all second hand so I hesitate to say everything I’ve heard. Don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth or cause any problems for anyone.
And not that it matters, but I stopped attending my home ward after a year of coming out publicly.
Why? Because my ward ostracized me. (Yay! Right???) They stopped talking to me, they wouldn’t sit on the same bench, they’d get up and move away. It was so bad that my wife, who was divorcing me, would come and sit on the bench at the opposite end so I wasn’t alone.
Then a friend invited me to attend her ward. There I was invited to RS, included in their weekly email, and the bishop even assigned ministering sisters. I also attended mid-week activities. Plus these women would sit with me and talk to me. I had new friends who invited me to their family Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings.
Why would I attend my home ward where I was treated like a leper????
Q: “So you are a proud *transsexual* member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? How is that not tribal & why do you seek out your own gender group within the religion rather than simply it in & of itself?
A: I am a proud member of @Ch_JesusChrist who happens to be a transsexual woman. I leverage my identity to show that one can be transsexual AND a Latter-day Saint despite what the overwhelming majority says. I am a daughter of God first. Always. However, I also understand how humans work, especially in today’s environment, and I speak on others levels to hopefully help lift them up to a higher plane. To see the light that I see. To accept The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
A VERY small percentage have reached out to me questioning my “why” about my recent posts on LDS History and people of African descent. I’m sure others have thoughts too, so figured I’d answer here vs getting more comments or DM’s with essentially the same questions.
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Q: “So you are a proud *black* member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? How is that not tribal & why do you seek out your own racial group within the religion rather than simply it in & of itself?
A: I am a proud member of @Ch_JesusChrist who happens to be black. I leverage my ethnicity to show that one can be black AND a Latter-day Saint despite what the overwhelming majority says. I am a child of God first. Always. However, I also understand how humans work, especially in today’s environment, and I speak on others levels to hopefully help lift them up to a higher plane. To see the light that I see. To accept The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
A: I’d also argue 1% of what I post on here has to do with the Priesthood Ban, but I do plan on posting more 🤷🏽♂️
Q: Why is this your niche though? Why not something else?
A: Does the history intrigue me?
- Yes. Why?
- It was the only thing years ago that I struggled with causing my major faith crisis
- It’s a hurdle many people have to overcome and don’t know how to or where to look. I have people ask questions behind the scenes all the time about it. I’ve had a Bishop here on X ask me for advice on how to help someone struggling with the Priesthood Ban. I have missionaries asking me to do a zoom calls to help their investigators. I was even complemented by @RykerJackson97 the other day about the knowledge I slowly acquire on these topics to help others struggling.
- I hope to provide a source of knowledge for someone struggling with it the way I once did, but had to figure out on my own.
Q: Well, they either accept the Gospel or they don’t. They should just have faith. Seems unnecessary?
A: In a perfect world, yes. However, like I said I understand how humans work and live in reality. I ALWAYS start with needing a testimony of The Gospel and Book of Mormon. Why? Because nothing converts better than the spirit. I understand this. I preach this. I also understand not everyone will operate that way and if some answers help soften their heart to better feel the spirit testify to them about the Restoration, then that’s a W for me.
Ultimately, it is uncomfortable LDS history for many. Not for me. I take it head on. To the chin.
My goal is to bring people closer to Christ and His gospel. I do this in a plethora of ways, but a niche I enjoy and understand personally is this.
I know not everyone understands, empathizes, or values this niche, but I do.
If it makes you uncomfortable, feel free to block/mute me. I won’t be offended 🙏🏾
“Anyone who does not treat individuals who face gender identity challenges with love and dignity is not aligned with the teachings of the first and second great commandments." - President Oaks 2023
Well done Vice President.
Former Vice President Mike Pence says he's "heartened" to hear that former CIA Officer Julia Curlee - a trans woman who served as his daily briefer during the first Trump term - said that he treated her with "great dignity."
BASH: "I spoke to her earlier this week, and she said despite your different views, you treated her with "great dignity," and a big moment for her in her life was you telling her mother that you must be very proud of your daughter. What was your reaction to hearing her say that?"
PENCE: "I appreciate the kind words ... My conservative values are fairly well-known, but maybe some people didn't quite know that among our Christian values is — my wife and I believe in treating others the way that we'd like to be treated, with decency and respect. And I was heartened to hear Julia reflect that that was the experience that took place in our office."
I had a friend who made his own fireworks in high school. He got me a job at a fireworks company in college.
We literally would do a finger check when we met each day.
One day in the bunker I was getting a 12” mortar shell off the top shelf and dropped it. There was a pause as we looked at shell that had gone thump on the floor and realized we were still alive.
OK, but isn't the script basically John Wick?
She doesn't want to be a super hero so she gets out of the game. But then the bad guy hurts the dog and steals her car and then she spends the rest of the movie going for revenge. And then finds herself being a super hero again?
#Supergirl is a “super-horrendous” comic book movie “with the worst script I can remember,” reads Variety’s review from @OwenGleiberman.
James Gunn said he wasn’t going into production on any movie until the script was rock-solid. For that was the overriding problem with the superhero overkill era: the films had lousy scripts, which served as grids for layering visual effects.
Gunn was right to want to take the comic-book genre back to the basics of well-structured screenwriting. So what has he done in his second DC outing? He’s given us a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember.
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As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’m cool with this. I don’t need the validation of the Department of War about whether I follow Christ or not.
And frankly, I think we are different enough to have our own category. And why spend the energy trying to be part of a club that fundamentally doesn’t want us? Let them do their thing. We’re doing it better.
And one bright day in the future, they will beg to be part of us and we will welcome them.
The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of collecting this data - to allow our chaplains and religious support personnel to provide the best spiritual care to our warfighters.
This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of “officially approved” religions. Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.
The Department of War places a high value on the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. Chaplains play an instrumental role in providing spiritual care and facilitating the Warfighters' ability to freely exercise their religion of choice, or no religion at all. With this new change, we believe we can provide the best data to support our chaplains in that effort.
Well, this explains the gender nightmare of the past 10+ years.
The threshold for gender dysphoria was dropped from all 6 criteria to just 2. Rigorous diagnosis became self-id. The threshold for sex went from a binary to a spectrum.
People started deciding they had eggs to crack. They decided after years of introspection they were trans or non-binary. Their stress over puberty or sexual assault or porn addiction or whatever all became symptoms of the Gender Dysphoria.
And then they adopted it as an identity with flags and support groups. And invented new genders for more identities of specialness.
Can anyone spell ROGD???
I knew you could.
Sigh.
Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.
What went wrong?
In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:
1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.
The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.
This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.
Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace…
I had a friend who was asked to write an article for the Church. What they wrote was evaluated and scrutinized, draft after draft, to the highest levels before it was allowed to be published.
And there was blow back. A LOT of blowback. Same crap about the church going woke. Church in apostasy. Church taken over by progressives. The comments were brutal on social media.
And when they talked to the Church officials about the reaction they were told, "Those people are exactly who we had you write it for."
So if you're complaining about what Church posts, you're likely the target audience.
Let that sink in.
“I grew up in Arizona, served a mission in Mexico, and went to college thinking I had a pretty clear path for my life. Then I met my now wife Victoria, and everything changed in the best way.
“She always knew she wanted to be a doctor. Pediatric neurology isn’t an easy road, but it’s who she is, compassionate, steady, brilliant, and drawn to help kids and families through the hardest things life hands them. When she got into med school in California, we packed up and moved.
“Stepping into her dream together was an easy choice. I wanted to support her the way she has always supported me. And honestly, watching her work and sacrifice and love people like she does has strengthened my faith more than anything else.
“My path hasn’t been as clear. I’ve tried different directions, learned a lot, prayed a lot. Some days I still feel like I’m figuring it out. But I do know that God doesn’t measure timelines. He measures love, humility, and the way we show up for each other.
“Supporting her doesn’t shrink my purpose—it expands it. Our callings from God can look different, and that’s beautiful. I’m building my future too, but I’m grateful that right now, part of my purpose is cheering for the person I love most as she steps into hers.
“There’s not one 'right way' to build a family or a future. For us, this is ours. And it’s sacred.” — Nate
This is interesting.
Utah was the first US state to allow for an amended birth certificate for a "sex change" on May 13, 1975 allowing alignment with our lived gender. Surgery was not explicitly required, but was implied. It was left up to individual district courts discretion.
In 1977, California was the first US state that explicitly required a "sex change" operation to change your birth certificate.
In 1990, the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) issued the first formal guidance of transsexual participation in sport. Curiously, if you underwent a "sex change" before puberty there were no restrictions. (How does that work???) But if you underwent a "sex change" after puberty, cases were to be handled on a case-by-case basis to make sure it was fair. (Sounds like another Utah law we had.)
In 2003, the IOC Olympics ruled for those who had a "sex change" after puberty that actual surgery was required, also legal recognition, and 2 years on hormones.
But gays couldn't marry in the United States till Massachusetts in 2004 and in all states in 2014.
We transsexuals had our rights long before the gays. We could live our lives legally. We didn't need to fight for our rights following gay marriage.
And now 50 years later we are losing our rights to live as our gender because some idiots around 2015 decided that surgery was no longer required. That you could just self-id. That transition wasn't actually necessary. And that kids could medically transition.
So any man, meaning mostly transvestites, could just declare they were a woman with zero effort or sacrifice, responsibility, or accountability, and with zero respect for women. Male entitlement.
Because this gate-keeping was too hard for these snowflakes. Having a "sex change" was too cumbersome. It's been these transvestites and transgenders that have been fighting for their right to be women while still possessing their male privilege that have made the mess and continue to make a mess.
Spoiler alert: Women don't have a penis.
Idiots.
tl;dr: I had a peritoneal flap vaginoplasty three months ago. It’s all good. Even great.
I’m a life long, active, believing, covenant keeping member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
While a prepubescent adolescent in the 1970s, I tried to castrate myself several times and I later attempted suicide. In college I learned about medical transition, but I had decided that getting married in the temple and having a family was what I most wanted. So I delayed medical transition till after having my kids, unaware of the recent 1983 LDS Church policy calling for excommunication for transexual operations.
Many years later living detransitioned and serving in a Bishopric, I learned of this policy flipping through General Handbook 1. It was quite a shock. Any hopes I had of eventually having surgery were gone.
Then about 15 years ago, after my last child was born, I started DIY and 11 years ago began HRT. In my mind taking “cross sex hormones” wasn’t a transsexual operation. It wasn’t the same as a vaginoplasty, right?
I figured that was the best I’d ever be able to medicalize. And then there was the February 2020 policy that opened a door. The punishment of excommunication was removed and replaced with restrictions. I could live with restrictions.
In May 2023, my company announced insurance coverage of gender affirming surgeries. All of them: face, breast, butt, voice. I was already restricted by the Church for medically and socially transitioning, so why not now have surgery?
I found out who was the best surgeon for a peritoneal flap vaginoplasty. I’d done my research. Google it. (It doesn’t invert the penis, or use the colon or skin grafts. It uses part of the abdominal wall in a modified Davydov Procedure. Very cool.) However, I was given a consult appointment in 2.5 years! But a cancellation moved it up to 1 year. I was then given a surgery date in 1.5 years. But a cancellation moved it up 2 months.
I spent December 2025 in a hospital for a week and a hotel for 2 weeks recovering in a remote city with my support friend. Merry Christmas! Then my company announced starting Jan 2026 they no longer covered any gender surgeries. Yikes!
So I consider it an absolute miracle and a gift from a loving Father in Heaven that I was able to have this operation. I had insurance coverage for the exact months required for it to be possible.
So how has it been? Absolutely freaking wonderful! It’s finally gone!🤪
It’s also been relatively pain free, except for one really bad night after two weeks. (Upped the meds.) Dilation is awkward and time consuming, and really only hurts briefly when sizing up, but hasn’t been horrible. I got to the largest size dilator in 5 weeks. And I’ve had orgasms since the 6th week.
Everything looks great. It really appears biologically normal. (Not that anyone will know. 🤣) And I’ve got 16cm (6.3”) of depth. My ob/gyn says it’s easy top three she’s ever seen. No complications. Trace granulation. No need for revisions. No discharge. No smell.
Honestly I don’t think it could have gone more perfect. Such a blessing. Couldn’t be happier.
But the reality is that it’ll probably never get used for sex. Seems highly unlikely I’ll ever be able to marry a worthy Latter-day Saint who has a penis, right? Not like I have another temple marriage in my future. Or do I? 🤪🤣😂
Oh, well. There’s always eternity.🙏🏻
***This is just my true story and my real results. YMMV. I’m truly sorry if this hasn’t been your experience. No, I won’t say who was my surgeon.***
Welcome GenX!
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Elder Clark G. Gilbert was announced as the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026.
I'd like to thank all those who worked tirelessly to get my account suspended for *check notes* being LDS and transsexual. (Because I sure wasn't "spamming" or "manipulating the algorithm".)
So while I got a two month vacation, let's see if they learned anything from the Conference talks last month. I'm guessing not.
But for now, I'm back again.