![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He does not provide a clear, one-line description of sex, but does define it as primarily a binary assignation "typically with reference to chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, and internal reproductive anatomy and external genitalia" (p16).ĭysphoria, then, refers to the dis-ease, the discomfort, of an existence in which to a greater or lesser extent one's subjective experience of gender, is at odds with the biological sex that one is born with. What is gender dysphoria? Yarhouse explains it like this: when one's experience of gender identity (i.e., their psychological, social, cultural, and emotional experience of being male or female), does not align with their birth sex. That's, from the title, the topic of this book - it's an introductory text in which Yarhouse does two main things: (1) provides an introductory explanation of what gender dysphoria is, what we know about it and don't know, and both standard approaches in the field as well as some snippets of people's personal experiences from his research (2) Yarhouse provides some (by no means comprehensive!) elements towards both a Christian perspective on gender dysphoria, and towards responses both on a personal and an institutional level. ![]()
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