Gender minorities and the LDS Church

Transgender people and other gender minorities currently face restrictions in membership, and in access to priesthood and temple rites in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—Mormonism's largest denomination. All transgender people, even those who have only socially transitioned without gender-affirming surgery, are ineligible to join the LDS Church via baptism as of 2024. In 2020 the church issued guidelines for persons born intersex stating the decision to determine a child's sex is left to the parents, with the guidance of medical professionals, and that such decisions can be made at birth or can be delayed until medically necessary. Prior to 2020, the LDS Church had no publicly available policy or statements on intersex persons.

In the past the church taught that homosexuality was caused by gender nonconformity or confusion about gender roles. Only recently have top LDS leaders begun directly addressing gender diversity and the experiences of transgender, non-binary, intersex, and other gender minority people whose gender identity, gender expression, and/or sex characteristics differ from the cisgender (i.e. non-transgender) and endosex (i.e. non-intersex) majority. Trans and intersex members of the LDS Church have received greater reporting in media, and church teachings and policies have received criticism.