Gwendlyn Brown Says Transgender Sibling Leon Is Taking ‘Space’ From Family to Feel ‘Safer’

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 Sister Wives’ Gwendlyn Brown opened up about her sibling Leon Brown‘s relationship with their family after coming out as transgender.In a video uploaded to her YouTube channel on Sunday, February 19, Gwendlyn, 21, reacted to episode 9 of Sister Wives’ 17th season and took issue with her father, Kody Brown, saying the children he shares with multiple partners are “not cohesive” as a family unit.Gwendlyn — whose mother Christine Brown is one of the 54-year-old patriarch’s ex-wives — called her dad’s comments “beyond wrong,” noting, “Leon has given themselves space for their emotional health.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesLater in the video, the TLC personality elaborated on her 27-year-old sibling’s feelings toward the blended clan.“Leon has been, since childhood, kind of the odd one out in the family because they had no siblings from their mom to really get along with,” she said of Kody’s only biological child with ex-wife Meri Brown. “They just probably felt like the odd one out.

And also, with Leon being transgender and queer in general and being in a family that predominantly practices a Mormon fundamentalist faith.

Mormonism hasn’t really traditionally been kind to queer people, especially with a family that’s quite a bit conservative and partially against transsexuality in general.”Gwendlyn added of Leon distancing themselves from the large brood: “It’s not that they’re not fitting in.

It’s that they have chosen to go to people who they can trust, and it’s just they found a safer community for themselves.”Leon announced that they are transgender via Instagram in June 2022.“Someone recently told me that I didn’t have to have all of my shit figured out in order for me to share myself with the