Sonny Smith - Mormonism, Transgenderism and choosing between spiritual identity and gender identity

Sonny Smith is a 28 year old man who is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He has also dealt with Gender Dysphoria his entire life. For as long as he could remember, he felt as though he should have been born a woman.

As a young child in primary he gained a testimony that Jesus Christ was his savior and that the Book of Mormon was the word of God. However as he grew older he felt that his gender identity would soon clash with his faith.

Hear the story of coming out to his bishop (who had been instrumental in the passing of California Proposition 8), serving a mission while dealing with Gender Dysphoria, serving in the 82nd airborne, marriage, divorce, transitioning into a woman, de-transitioning back to being a man and the role of faith in his life as he continues to struggle with the cognitive dissonance of identifying as an LDS follower of Jesus Christ and identifying as a woman.

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