Thump, Thump… Just A Speed Bump.

In Utah we were throw under the bus and made second class citizens.

New LDS Church policies relegate trans members to ‘second-class’ status, scholars warn
Other General Handbook changes include additional guidance on temple garments and a new responsibility for Young Women on Sundays.
The Salt Lake Tribune
By Tamarra Kemsley
August 19, 2024

A slate of new policy changes restricting the involvement of transgender Latter-day Saints in their congregations could further stigmatize those individuals within their worship communities while cementing their “second-class” status within the global faith, scholars and those impacted by the updates warned Monday.

“It’s egregious and onerous,” said Laurie Lee Hall, a former stake president and temple architect who was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for living as a transgender woman. “We’re in a far worse place than we were yesterday.”

The updates — released Monday along with additional guidance on temple garments, a new responsibility for teenage girls and other topics — reaffirm the church’s stance that gender, which it defines as biological sex at birth, is “an essential characteristic in Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness” and that leaders should discourage individuals from transitioning in any form.

At the same time, the latest edition of the online “General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” reiterates that the faith “does not take a position on the causes of” individuals feeling as though their assigned sex at birth does not match their gender identity.

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Laurie Lee Hall said she hadn’t been to church in some time but grew emotional when she thought of the impact these new policies could have on those she knows within the trans community, including young people, who continue to make the church their spiritual home.

“It’s dehumanizing and degrading to have to have a chaperone clear a restroom before you can use it,” she said, explaining that few Latter-day Saint meetinghouses have unisex restrooms — a fact she gleaned during her years designing the buildings.

Hmm… I wonder if a whole state can claim “Religious Freedom” to discriminate.

NBC News reports,

Mormon church issues new restrictions on transgender members
The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.
By Matt Lavietes
August 21, 2024

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church, issued a slew of new policies this week expanding its restrictions on transgender members.

The policies, released Monday, include rules barring trans people from working with children, becoming priests and serving as teachers. The church also expanded on an existing rule that barred trans people from being baptized.

Trans members will also face possible annotation on their membership records, grouping them with churchgoers who have committed incest, sexual predatory behavior, sexual violence against children and embezzlement of church funds.

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Those who do “transition away from their biological sex at birth,” the handbook notes, will be completely turned away.

With the Mormon church like other non-affirming churches are in decline you could wonder if their policy of animosity against us has anything to do with the decline?