‘Endure until you die’: Mormon’s LGBT rules put gay youth at risk.

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Beckett Jones, 20, stands for a portrait at Orval Krasen Park in Eagle on Aug. 10. Jones came out as gay and then transgender to his Latter-day Saints family at 13 years old. Now, he and his mom organize activities for LGBTQ youth, their parents and their allies to bring together others facing the same obstacles. (Image: THE IDAHO STATESMAN)

Beckett Jones came out twice to his Latter-day Saintsfamily as a teenager — first, at 13 years old, as a gay woman and then, at 18 years old, as a transgender man.

Jones’ self discovery, however, prompted a faith crisis as his family sought to…