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Podcast: Mormon Land
Episode: How new church policies make trans members invisible and could push them to leave | Episode 352
Description: The occasional updates to the online General Handbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are often routine, addressing relatively mundane policies, practices and procedures within the global faith of 17.2 million members.
Not so this week.
The new guidelines spelled out for local lay leaders and their approach to transgender individuals have created a firestorm among LGBTQ members and their allies not seen, perhaps, since the hotly disputed — and now-discarded — exclusion policy of November 2015 against same-sex couples.
The new rules state, for instance, that members who have transitioned in any way — whether surgically, medically or socially — cannot receive a temple...