The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.

The new policies include a measure to annotate trans members’ records, grouping them with members who have committed sexual violence or child abuse.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church, issued a slew of new policies this week expanding its restrictions on transgender members.

The policies, released Monday, include rules barring trans people from working with children, becoming priests and serving as teachers. The church also expanded on an existing rule that barred trans people from being baptized.

Trans members will also face possible annotation on their membership records, grouping them with churchgoers who have committed incest, sexual predatory behavior, sexual violence against children and embezzlement of church funds.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    34·
    8 months ago

    Tax free status for churches has been one of the dumbest policies ever, they don’t follow the rules on not promoting political parties and candidates and use that privilege to oppress scapegoats.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      18·
      8 months ago

      I would even be fine with preserving their tax-free status if they were required to keep open books like other nonprofits. Let the world see exactly what a megachurch spends its money on. They’ll find they have a lot fewer new recruits.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Mormon baptism is also the key initiation ritual. You aren’t “officially” Mormon until you’re baptized. Typically, this happens at age 8, because that’s when you are deemed to have sufficient agency for some very stupid reason, but also all converts and previously excommunicated people must be baptized (or re-baptized in the latter case) to become members. I think this is mostly telling local missionaries and members not to even try to baptize a trans person until they’re “fixed.”

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    It’s like they learned nothing with the gay community. All this shit just screams scared old man. Fucking over their nonsense.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    What did Joseph Smith say about transgender people? Nothing. What did Brigham Young have to say about transgender? Nothing. What does the book of Mormon say about transgender? Nothing.

    Must be nice to hide your bigotry behind a religion that does not even back you up your hate in its scripture. Truly pathetic.

  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    You mean to tell me that it’s too much trouble for them to keep track of their own leadership and bishops to remember which have been accused of misbehavior and sexual abuse, but they totally have the time and capacity to keep track of which church members had a sex change and then group them with the empty file of sex abusers to was too troublesome to keep?

  • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Funny, I’ve mentally annotated mormons my whole life as likely to commit sexual violence and child abuse.

  • LordGimp@lemm.ee
    2·
    8 months ago

    So is Brandon Sanderson going to rewrite the king of the reshi isles or what? Lmfao I always laugh whenever someone tells me how inclusive or socially positive any of his writing is. Y’all can clown on JK Rowling no problem but give this guy a pass?

    • Kayday@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Asking genuinely as someone who hasn’t read any of his books; what had B.S. said/written that is socially negative? I know nothing about the guy tbh.