1689: The Tyranny of Mormon Patriarchal Blessings – Amanda & Shaye Scott Pt. 1
Content Warning: Gender Dysphoria & Suicidal Ideation
Amanda and Shaye already have a following on their YouTube Channel “Great Scotts” but their video “Why we left the Mormon Church – coming out story” made an even bigger splash. Join us as we hear their stories growing up in Mormon families, their early testimonies and experiences with the Church, Shaye’s gender dysphoria and thoughts of suicide, how they met, Shaye serving a mission, and their subsequent marriage after returning.
YouTube Channel: Great Scotts
1690: Gender Dysphoria & Mormonism – Amanda & Shaye Scott Pt. 2
We also take a deep dive into Shaye’s growing dysphoria into their marriage how that developed into severe internalized transphobia, which extended to the whole LGBTQ community as a whole as even allyship felt too “close” and “dangerous” to the secret he was trying to keep buried.
YouTube Channel: Great Scotts
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audio for pt2?
Right behind you Timmy Tim!
Love this couple. Wonderful guests. Models of courage and compassion.
My blessing basically said I’ll neve4 be good enough. I’ve read it 3x in 30 years
A lot of good is trying to be done with these podcasts, and that should be noted. Unfortunately the layers of hypocrisy within them are thick. Just a couple minutes in they want to make sure the correct pronouns of the guests are being used. That’s a good thing. Yet, we are multiple years in and Dehlin won’t stop using the nickname “Mormon” after the leader of the church has publicly asked that the church be called by its proper full name.
You can’t have it both ways without the hypocrisy being noted.
I think the only hypocrisy that’s highlighted is the Church’s for demanding respect for their “proper” name when their absolutely REFUSAL to do that for others represents the barest minimum of the harm they’ve caused that community, including destroyed families and deaths. Made even more hypocritical by the fact that the nickname they abhor on Nelson’s behalf is one that was actively taken on and celebrated in the billion-dollar “I’m a Mormon” campaign under Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson.
It’s an insult to the intelligence to now believe that every member who participated in that campaign, along with the Church’s “Prophets, Seers, and Revelators” at the time where under the influence of Satan, really offending Jesus the whole time so much that he didn’t reveal the current new logo back then.
Such a beautiful couple and feel grateful that they were willing to share their story.