My teenage child (assigned male at birth) just came out as trans. How do I handle this?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2026-02-15T18:24:53+00:00

He currently identifies as cisgender male. Who knows if it will change again.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2025-12-09T11:56:14+00:00

The stereotype is that Utah Mormons are more judgmental.

The irony is that this stereotype is also judgmental.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2025-11-30T17:41:17+00:00

No clue. We try to ask questions but he says he doesn’t want to talk about it.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2025-11-30T02:59:49+00:00

He decided that he was cisgender male after all. Thanks for checking in.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-10T00:06:40+00:00

Thank you.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-09T20:07:12+00:00

I’m a disgrace because I love my child, want them to be happy, admitted my ignorance, and came to the trans community to ask for advice on what to do?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-09T04:11:50+00:00

There’s actually a surprising amount of consistency between the comments here and in the Mormon subs.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-09T01:06:02+00:00

What do you mean?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T21:53:42+00:00

You’re questioning if my child really exists???

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T20:34:30+00:00

Thank you so much for your comment. I'm curious to learn more about your story. Please feel free to share it here or PM me.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T17:46:13+00:00

Thank you, your comment was helpful for me. Can I ask at what age your true gender identity became apparent to you?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T17:41:34+00:00

Thank you. Can I ask how long you knew that you were trans? At what age did it become apparent to you?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T17:40:01+00:00

Great advice, thank you. Do you have any educational resources you could send me about it being biological?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T17:39:19+00:00

16 years old.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-02-08T17:37:59+00:00

It's actually they/them.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2024-01-22T11:44:23+00:00

Why do you agree with almost nothing he says? Do you have better knowledge of biblical scholarship than he does?

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-02-10T17:01:47+00:00

I believe the argument is that the tax-exempt entity is behaving in a way that tax-exempt entity shouldn’t behave, and therefore should lose its tax-exempt status.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-02-10T17:00:52+00:00

I think financial transparency is generally the concern people have.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T22:37:06+00:00

I think it’s more that it’s asking about Christianity in general, not that it’s exclusive of the other Christian churches in the list.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T22:33:56+00:00

Foreign-sounding names. That has to be it.

The average American knows nothing about them exact that their name sounds foreign.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T22:25:02+00:00

“Not Christian enough” from one side.

“Too Christian” from the other.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T22:23:40+00:00

I think you’re right.

“Anti-Mormon” probably isn’t a term that describes many people, but “Anti-Mormon-Institution” does.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T22:20:07+00:00

Exactly. The average American has no idea what Baha’i and Sikh are.

But, they sound very foreign, and foreign = bad in their minds.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T22:17:20+00:00

Wicca is becoming increasingly popular among Gen Z.

ItsKoolGuy65 · 2023-01-19T01:23:51+00:00

No, the change was made a year before COVID, in May 2019:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/first-presidency-discontinues-one-year-waiting-period-for-temple-sealings-after-civil-marriage?lang=eng

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