Kris Irvin was a transgender Latter-day Saint with an incomparable Twitter presence. They challenged the faith to be more accepting. And they mentored the LGBTQ community, which will remember their love of 'Star Wars' and possums.
Irvin was a friendly force for other LGBTQ members of the church as they openly talked about faith and identity and top surgery.
The 35-year-old Irvin accepted the contradiction of their identity and their faith and chose to live in the gray area, which they arguably made more colorful. Irvin’s name trended on the social media platform in the state for several days after they died, with hundreds tweeting in mourning. Treviño remembers Irvin setting fire to the carpet accidentally one day and once coming home to find chocolate pudding on the ceiling. Laughing now, Treviño says there was never a dull moment.
While there was some relief, that came with its own challenges, too. There were not a lot of openly transgender members of the LDS Church then — there still aren’t; perhaps the most prominent one, Pictured is Kris Irvin, left, with Blaire Ostler, Peter Moosman and Katherine Herrmann in this photo from April 2019. The group stood outside the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with their signs.
Irvin wrote back in an email to the leader and shared a copy of it on Twitter. It said: “At what point do my breasts determine my level of membership in the church?”Ostler said how Irvin handled what became a public battle over a private decision was how they responded to everything. They were “kind to oppressors,” while still standing up for themself and what they believed was right, Ostler noted.
Irvin was relieved, but told The Tribune: “I’m still worried for others like me. The fight is not over.” And they remained hesitant to return to BYU, transferring to Utah Valley University instead.
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