Sentences with phrase «understanding gender dysphoria»

However, a more conservative interpretation of the Matthew text, taken for example by Mark A Yarhouse, author of Understanding Gender Dysphoria (IVP), is that «those who make themselves eunuchs» in this text «almost certainly refers to those who choose not to marry (rather than suggesting they were castrating themselves).»

Not exact matches

Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort of meaning, however misguided, in things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.

The virtue - signaling mother in that beauty shop notwithstanding, there's an intuitive understanding that we're dealing here with real psychological distress — «gender dysphoria,» in the technical vocabulary — and that this and similar problems ought not be political ping - pong balls, because lives are at stake.

Caroline Farrow, speaker, blogger and columnist for the Catholic Universe, says that while she can not endorse sex change for those battling gender dysphoria, a pastoral response must include listening, dialogue and offering understanding to transgender people.

Those with gender dysphoria experience a mismatch between their physical sexual organs and their psychological and emotional understanding of their own gender.