Episode 378: Serena Jamison, Transgender Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

My friend Serena Jamison shares her journey as a transgender women. Serena is in her early 40’s, a convert to the Church, married with four children. She talks about her long-term journey with gender dysphoria and finally accepting herself in November 2019 as transgender. Serena helps us better understand our transgender friends and how their experience is real, authentic and often difficult (but necessary) in their journey to self-acceptance. Serena's current project is to interview transgender people to hear their voices and she posts these interviews at https://vopserena.medium.com . She can be reached via social media at @SerenaNoelle_ on Twitter, [email protected] by email, and https://www.facebook.com/serena.jamison.22/. Thank you Serena for being on the podcast. You are awesome. Our church and world is a better place because of you and your contributions. Richard "Papa" Ostler ** Please Check Out My New Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:17.9	I really appreciate all that you're doing to get my book out.
0:22.4	Listen, learn, and love embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.
0:26.5	Writing a review on Amazon.
0:28.6	Desert Book is the best things you can do for me as far as sharing that book with others.
0:35.9	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Serena Jameson.
0:40.1	Welcome to the podcast, Serena.
0:42.7	Thank you very kindly.
0:45.7	Serena is calling in via Zoom.
0:48.3	You're just seeing the audio, but I get to see Serena on my screen.
0:52.5	She is calling in from Illinois, a suburb. She lives in the Chicago,
0:57.4	a suburb of Chicago. She has been married for 20 years. This upcoming year has four children.
1:04.4	It's about 39 as a convert to the church, joined the church at about age 19. Serena came out in April of 2020 as a transgender woman on Facebook and a Facebook post,
1:18.3	and we have been exchanging messages for the last month or two, and we just felt it was
1:24.6	time for Serena to share her story on the podcast and to share her journey as a transgender Latter-day Saint.
1:32.4	And the reason to do this is just to give hope and perspective to other transgender Latter-day Saints and help those of us that are cisgender,
1:40.7	better understand our transgender friends and how we can support them, how we can lift them up,
1:46.3	how we can follow the example of Christ to help everybody feel like they're loved and belong.
1:52.6	And so the best way I've learned how to learn about transgender people is to listen to transgender people.
1:59.6	And the transgender people that have been on our podcast have been some of my heroes.
2:03.6	And every story is a little different, and every journey is a little different.
2:06.6	So I've learned hearing one story doesn't help, doesn't mean that I understand every buddy's story.
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