I have a counseling client whom I’ll call “Israel” because she’s always struggling against injustice and afraid that God’s love isn’t meant for her. Her pain inspires me to remind readers that while the “clobber passages’ of the Bible have been mis-used to shame LGBTQ people, the bottom line message of the scriptures is that […]
Ministry on the gender margins
“Ministry on the Gender Margins” was originally published by Jeannine Gramick on Jun. 14, 2018 in Global Sisters Report. Sr. Luisa Derouen is a pioneer in the “T” of LGBT ministry. A few women religious are ministering among transgender people today, but Sister Luisa was the first to do so, as early as 1999, when most Catholics were just coming to […]
Sex Change Hormones Don’t Only Change Appearance — They Change The Brain, Too
What causes the experience of being transgender? And gender dysphoria? A discussion of biologically-based theory and the likely involvement of social learning. Nature and nurture are still a mystery in gender identity development. Source: Sex Change Hormones Don’t Only Change Appearance — They Change The Brain, Too
Considering ‘a-gender’: expressing selfhood without the binary
I admit, I was more than comfortable with the binary in life. Liberal/conservative, religious/atheist, men/women. It’s simpler that way, like Mayberry and the Cleaver household: we think we know where people stand and what is right and wrong without any contemplation or conversation at all. We can all sit at the same table that way. […]
Recent Research on Psychological Effects of Hormone Therapy
I invite your own observations if you are a person on feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy: what is your mood like on Estrogen? On Testosterone, what is your mood like? Recent Research on Psychological Effects of Hormone Therapy
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