Keith Burns

KEITH BURNS {[email protected]} holds a master’s degree in child development from Sarah Lawrence College, where he specialized in gender and sexual identity. He specifically focuses on LGBTQ+ experiences in religious contexts, including several projects he has completed on queer experiences in the LDS Church. Keith currently lives in New York City working on a master of social work at Lehman College.

Articles

Transcending Mormonism: Transgender Experiences in the LDS Church

Dialogue 56.1 (Spring 2023): 27–55
Enjoy an interview about this piece here.

Desiring to better understand how people are navigating these complex identity negotiations, I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming Mormons between eighteen and forty-four years old living in various regions of the United States as part of my graduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York

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Podcasts

Transcending Mormonism: Transgender Experiences in the LDS Church with Keith Burns

Keith Burns discusses the evolution of policies and approaches that LDS church leaders have engaged in the last decade. Read more

The Trans Mormon Experience: A Panel Discussion with Emily English, Ray Nielson and Keith Burns

To celebrate Pride Month, Dialogue Out Loud presents this special panel discussion with authors who have written about trans Mormon issues in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Journal Editor Taylor Petrey sits down with… Read more