Hi, I'm Jordan.
I believe that art is love is deity is art. I enjoy creating. I am on a path to healing. I was a mormon.
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About me
I was raised to believe that the greatest thing I could become as a member of the church was a wife and mother. It never felt congruent with who I knew I was internally. It felt inauthentic to my internal reality. I was raised ad what I believed was the 5th of 6, in a family where gender identity was innate to who you were. It never felt right.
# Why I left More stories of 'Why I left' the Mormon church
Long story short, I'm transgender. My pronouns are he/they, I take testosterone and am in the process of getting my chest removed. I have never been as happy as I am now that I am allowed to be the person that I always knew I was. I'm so grateful to be where I am now, outside of the intensely regimented structure of the church. It's truly changed my life for the better