Sunday night’s episode of Sister Wives showed Kody Brown‘s family (complete with his ex wives!) coming together to celebrate the engagement of his daughter, Gwendlyn to Bea Queiroz. During the episode, Kody and his ex-wife Christine (who is the mother of Gwendlyn) revealed how they feel about Gwendlyn marrying a woman and offered their thoughts on their children being part of the LGBTQ community.
“I had no problem with Gwen marrying a woman,” Kody said in a confessional during Sunday’s episode. “Gwendlyn came out but she wasn’t as articulate about it. She talked about how she, you know, was attracted to both sexes.”
Back in 2020, Gwendlyn “came out” publicly on Twitter as bisexual by adding it to her bio on the social media platform. (When fans congratulated her for coming out, Gwen clarified that she was “never in” the closet.) She later discussed her sexuality during an October 2022 episode of ‘Sister Wives.’
“I’m not only attracted to women. I’m also attracted to men and people that fall into other gender spectrum,” Gwendlyn stated on the episode.
On Sunday’s episode, Kody talked about how he felt God speaking to him about not judging others’ relationships.
“I specifically had an experience where God said (as God), ‘I judge’ and he told me, ‘And you love.’ That’s how I live if I can,” Kody said.
Christine also stated on the episode that she had absolutely no problem with Gwendlyn marrying a woman. In fact, she claimed to have known that Gwendlyn was gay long before her daughter announced it.
“We lived in Flagstaff when Gwendlyn told us that she was gay. Look, we all knew!” Christine said. “But to see Gwendlyn’s eyes just light up around Bea, and Gwendlyn is so comfortable around her. They’re just so cute together. It’s such a relief when your child finds their person!”
Gwen and Bea got engaged in November 2022 after just eight months of dating. They got hitched in July 2023 in a wedding that was attended by nearly all of the Brown family. (Even Kody and his remaining wife Robyn made an appearance, although Gwendlyn later revealed that they came two hours late to the wedding.)
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As ‘Sister Wives’ fans know, Gwendlyn is not the first of Kody’s 18 kids to come out. In 2017, Leon— Kody’s child with his first wife Meri came out as gay during an episode of the show. (At the time that episode aired, Leon was still using the name Mariah.) In 2022, Leon came out as transgender and announced their new name.
During the October 2022 episode that Gwen talked about her sexuality, Christine stated that she realized Gwendlyn was likely part of the LGBTQ community when Leon revealed on the show that they were gay.
“When Mariah told us that she was gay, immediately I thought, ‘Oh, so is Gwendlyn.’ I knew immediately,” Christine said at the time. (Christine was not dead-naming Leon here, by the way. This was filmed before Leon came out as transgender and began using they/them pronouns. Since that episode was filmed, Leon has undergone gender-affirming top surgery and married their longtime partner Audrey Kriss.)
Last year Gwen discussed online how Leon has chosen to distance themselves from most of the Brown Family. She also revealed that some of the family members are not supportive of transgendered people.
“With Leon being transgender and queer in general and being in a family that predominantly practices a Mormon Fundamentalist faith, Mormonism hasn’t traditionally been kind to queer people,” Gwendlyn said. “Especially with a family that’s quite a bit conservative and partially against transsexuality in general.
“[Leon has] just been separating themselves from the situation, and has been sticking with people who are more safe with them…It’s not that they’re not fitting in. It’s that they have chosen to go to people they can trust. They’ve found a safer community for themselves.”
@leointhemtns on making my younger self proud #trans #queer #pride ♬ A Gentle Sunlight – James Quinn
In January 2023, Gwen talked about how the family reacted to Leon coming out as transgender. She stated that Leon’s mother, Meri, “was absolutely the most supportive” but that “transphobes still very much exist even in this family but they’re the very small minority of us.”
Gwen did not, however, state if Kody was supportive. An August 2023 report from The Sun stated that Kody was very upset when Leon came out as transgender.
“He does not support Leon’s transition at all,” a family source told the outlet. “He’s actually disgusted by it, as terrible as that is. Kody is telling close friends, ‘This is a new person. I don’t know who this person is, but this is not the little girl that I raised.’
“They don’t have a relationship anymore,” the source added of Kody and Leon, who were once very close.
Kody has never publicly commented on Leon’s transition, however.
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They clearly have not read the Bible.
These examples just require a good shoring.
Until Biden these were mentally ill people- Biden being a pedophile normalized perversions.
I am not going along with this- you do you but I will never pretend this is normal or acceptable.
Oh my fucking goodness…you seem like such a lovely person….. not!
I think it is totally different having raise your children up and for one to be gay and one to transition. Transitioning is a major decision and it changes you, your look, attitude, just a lot. It isn’t just dressing different. If the boy or girl I raised completely changed, yea, I don’t agree with that. If they fell in love with the same gender, you know I’m not that familiar with it, it is different but it is what it is. I do not agree with transition. Kody is a piece of crap in many ways. But you don’t have to agree with everything your child does.
I 100% agree with your comment. You can love your child without being happy about everything they do. Kody is a shitty father, but not because of this.
Also, I don’t think Mariah is actually trans and anybody that’s followed along can see that. She’s a very impressionable person that makes extreme decisions without thinking them through and wants terribly to feel special. She didn’t have an inkling of being gender confused until her wife became trans, then she suddenly was too. Even the most pro-trans person can agree that the sheer odds of that actually happening are astronomical. She was all for being a sister wife for years, then she went to college and made some friends that were gay, so she realized she was too, then her wife became trans, so she’s suddenly attracted to men again and is also a trans man. I know I’ll get some down votes for this and maybe called a bigot and such, but y’all know the math ain’t mathing and this is somebody that actually needs intensive therapy because there’s a ton of underlying issues that need to be dealt with before anymore irreversible decisions are made.
Not trying to be political or anything on here, my comment is about this person in particular and not a whole group.
I completely agree as well- I think Mariah/Leon is an impressionable person just trying to fit in. I don’t think you are a bigot at all- I think in MANY cases, it’s a matter of the person trying desperately to fit in AND being extremely impressionable and easy to influence. Period! I also personally think Mariah is an insufferable and miserable human being like her father- Just like Magan said below. Very accurate way of describing her.
No said you had to agree with everything your child does. But, alienating your child and refusing to acknowledge them because they didn’t toe the line is not ok. It’s also Kody’s MO.
I may be wrong, but from all I’ve read it seems as though Mariah is the one alienating herself because she doesn’t want to be around her family members that don’t agree with her. Now, Kody is notorious for being a shithead to his kids and he’s probably not innocent in their current dynamic by any means, but I’d say it’s probably more of a 50/50 thing in this case. They’re both difficult, insufferable people.
Leon gets to change their name. Kody refuses to call Leon by their name.
Weird to refuse to acknowledge that an adult can choose whatever name they want for themselves. Or wear what they want. Or look how they want. Adults get to wear, look, and use whatever name they want to. Kody’s refusal to acknowledge that is not 50/50 on Leon. He doesn’t have to agree with why Leon did it. But, he also doesn’t get to demand that she wear dresses and go by Mariah.
If I had a child that had Mariah’s personality and track record, I would also refuse to do so because (as I explained above) I very much doubt she’s actually trans, she just wants to feel special/be a part of a special group. I feel as though calling her Leon and using they/them (while may be well-meaning) will ultimately do more damage than anything because she’ll eventually find another more interesting identity to dive head-first into and won’t be able to undo some of these physical changes. She honestly got the worst parts of both parents.
That said, I’ll admit that Kody probably isn’t thinking about it in those “tough love” terms and, most likely, doesn’t even see Mariah’s personality flaws because they’re so much like his own. Neither likes being around somebody that disagrees with them and that’s the root of their relationship issue.
This is where I remind you that you don’t actually know Leon. This is a stranger you’ve seen snippets of and who has mostly stayed out of the public eye for years. Kody puts himself out there – Leon does not and has not in years. Leon has been with their spouse for years and has never expressed any regret about any choice they’ve made in their adult life. Making sweeping statements about their “track record” is so odd.
Cody irritates the hell out of me. He’s full of shit.He’s just not seeing his actual feelings, are national t.V, because he knows The show will be canceled because polygamist Ann mormons. In general, , IncludingLDS Are absolutely against homosexuality. His acceptance of his LTV. T q children is all for t v.He doesn’t actually at heart, accept them