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"Claren is often asked about the LDS doctrine stating that gender is “premortal, mortal and eternal.” On the surface, the idea seems to reject the transgender experience, but Claren disagrees. “There’s a difference between gender and sex,” he points out. “My sex when I was born was female but my gender – who I am, who my soul is – is male. I know who I am. I’m just making my outer shell match my spirit, my gender, my soul."
"I was always a male, a guy, a male spirit, but I chose to come down to earth in a female body. I’m supposed to be a boy – to have a boy body that matches my boy spirit. And now my spirit and my body are starting to become one."
NEW TOPIC: the people quoted here believe "that their experience of God and God’s love takes precedence over church hierarchy or doctrine. " ---- what does that mean exactly, "take precedence over"? there may be an answer to my question in the next paragraph here:
"“We believe that the inner voice, the Holy Ghost, trumps everything,” Wendy Montgomery explains. “If you’re getting personal revelation and you believe it’s of God, then that takes precedence.” Drawing on the power of that core relationship with God has been key for many who struggle. “If you believe something, don’t change that belief because someone says you can’t believe it or you don’t fit the model,” Emmet Claren says. “You have to decide for yourself what you believe and decide that nothing is going to take that away from you.” For Claren, that conviction drives his desire to reach out to others. “I want people to know that they are loved by God. It’s hard, so hard – but the strength is there to draw nearer to God instead of pushing him away.
...“At the end of the day, it is about putting your own personal serenity first, independent of what is done and said around you. I am responsible for my personal serenity – not my church, not my priest, not my prophet.”
DIfferent topic: this next quote is from a feminist. preamble to the quote: -- these views make me crazy. I do NOT know why women believe that this is what the doctrine of the Church is. It sounds like this lady never has been in the temple anyway, so .... But I think there are Church members who have been to the temple who also hold these beliefs. It makes me really wonder if I'm missing something in my understanding of the gospel.
"Kendell suspects that leaving the church is sometimes an easier choice for women. “Men are giving up a status as priesthood holders,” she points out. “They’re the head of the household. They’re regarded as special and as superior to women doctrinally. The priesthood gives them a direct channel to God."
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