Jutta

Gerlinde is a transsexual, I'm a woman born woman with lesbian feeelings. I'm not interested in joining any church. Why? If Scientists talk about transsexuality now as a part of human identity, which they hate before and punished for centuries, and they have evidences for it; Why should this be wrong? Why should such a person not be baptized? It is a matter between them and God/Jesus, not a matter of any church! I call this punishment and ignorant. What is about theit feelings, about their pain and suffering? Gerlinde spoke about how they had to cover-up her feelings of being a woman, trapped in a male body. About her two suicede attemps and her depressions. Such folks need help, not be sentenced and be punihed!!! To me, any kind of church or religion may be helpful, but mostly they are useless, because the didn't gave answers to peoples questions. They want that their folks are strictly obay and not with an open mind and heart.

No! I'm here to find answers about the topics gerlinde was talkin about. BTW, SHE is a transsexual, I'm a normal woman and her colleague.

@ estradling75, If I have understood you correctly because my English is lousy; you then think; that people shall live so for their whole life as they are born. Because God had assigned this body to them. Because certain roles and jobs are connected to this body. Have I understood you correctly? This means that your church does not accept transsexual people and Gerlinde reported to me correctly. I have investigated something on the Internet and I found ou something interesting about transsexualism: Source: Transsexualism [ Part I ] Same source Same sourceFor me it reads itself so as if God has made these people that way. And, if God has made these people that way, then they may live also so. This is my opinion.

I have a colleague who was a member of the LDS. She did not talk about your church very nicely and I would like to know whether Gerlinde (the name of my colleague) had reported everything to me correctly. At once, I begin with that, that Gerlinde was transsexual. She was born as a man, always, however, found herself as a girl/woman. She told me now that such people are excommunicated, if they are members. They should become a member of the church after the sex change surgery that they can neither get the priesthood (men who were born as women) and can't visit a temple (what is this?). That they would be 2nd class members of your church. Is this correct? And, if yes, why this is so?