Sentences with phrase «of sexual identity»

Close relationships between school - age children and parents of the same sex are particularly important for the formation of the children's sense of sexual identity and roles.

Because of his sexual identity, each person is referred beyond himself.

His ambitions are admirable, especially when it comes to his exploration of sexual identity and sexual activity in young teens.

At its core, «Dirty Computer» is a homage to women and the spectrum of sexual identities.

What someone does with it (behavior) may be sin, and that applies to people of all sexual identities, including straight people.

It's a very human tale in which the audience is forced to challenge its notions of sexual identity and love.

Other treatments focus primarily on the social and family context of sexual identity and seek to foster healthier interpersonal relationships.

Unlike people, dogs do not have a concept of sexual identity and neutering them will not result in any type of identity crisis.

Unlike humans, dogs and cats do not have a sense of sexual identity.

We need to be honest, clear and compassionate about what God asks of those of us who experience homosexual attractions and what resources and friendship we offer to those struggling with issues of sexual identity.

by Jeff Chu, Our Family Outing by Joe Cobb and Leigh Anne Taylor, A Time to Embrace by William Stacy Johnson, «The Body's Grace» by Rowan Williams, The End of Sexual Identity by Jenell Williams Paris, and a few more.)

Those who grew up in an era when homosexuality was the love that dared not speak its name seem blind to how completely the politics of sexual identity has transformed the cultural, political, and legal landscape.

The timing, method, and means of a trans person's decision to communicate the full nature of their sexual identity to a potential partner is something only that individual can consider and act upon.

We should all balk at the idea of the state intervening in the most private aspects of our sexual identity and expression, but is it much more acceptable to have private sheriffs police our bedrooms or decide what children should or shouldn't see?

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

Catholicism has long stood fiercely against the protections and rights offered by secular modernity, including women's equality, the freedom of sexual identity, respect for children's autonomy and reproductive choice.

Many of them have been found to affect few homosexuals in the development of sexual identity.

From the moment a person becomes conscious of his sexual identity, he is thus confronted with a kind of transcendence.

Neither Mayor Bill de Blasio nor Comptroller Scott Stringer responded, but James wrote in an email, «To truly stand as a city that welcomes every person regardless of sexual identity, gender identity, race, religion, or immigration status, our elected officials must represent values of equality, inclusion, and acceptance.

Humans, men and women of all sexual identities and orientations, all exhibit a fundamental biologically driven desire to connect and bond with one another.

Some gay Christians are able to work through the realization of their sexual identity, incorporate it into their life of faith, and remain in the church (or join a gay - oriented church group).

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

Theologies of embodiment, of play and of sexual identity celebrate the demise of asceticism.

«A former man who became a woman and is now a lesbian, Ms. Bornstein has constructed a series of mystically connected monologues in which she embodies a host of characters on different levels in the twilight zone of sexual identity: a male impersonator, a «she - male» drag queen, and five others who have, through surgery and sartorial camouflage, crossed the gender line from both directions.»

Although most of my published research and clinical practice is in the area of sexual identity, I regularly receive referrals to meet with people who experience conflicts like Sara's.

The «transgender» activists (now often allied with gay liberation movements) still argue that their members are entitled to whatever surgery they want, and they still claim that their sexual dysphoria represents a true conception of their sexual identity.

This usurpation of the body's language exposes how Gender relates to sex: with the language of sexual identity now being used to describe states of mind, we have two distinct and contradicting concepts sharing one set of words, but we do not have, say, two sets of loos — a Ladies (sex) and a Ladies (gender)-- or two legal definitions of the word «female».

According to some social analysts, the gender ideological movement is the most recent phase of the sexual revolution, perhaps the ultimate form of the revolution as the destruction of the sexual identity of the person.

To embrace the ideology is to do far more than downgrade the significance of the body: the ideology amounts to an active legal denial of sexual identity.

Anything subtler — like a feminine love of cooking or tendency to cry at the movies or unsuppressable maternal instinct or cultivation of a wardrobe that will turn heads or even a passionate good - night kiss — is deemed an inadequate demonstration of sexual identity.

And yet I think it needs to be said a lot today, because girls are less sure of what it means to be - or to become - a woman, less sure of their sexual identity and, it might seem, less eager to develop it.

With recent pushes for acceptance of sexual identity, orientation, and relationships it has become a lot more acceptable for to hear of a cougar dating a younger man.

Although Tomboy is as tightly constructed as a short story and as seemingly straightforward as a documentary, the parable about a small fib that grows out of control is so rooted in the rich soil of sexual identity that it entangles us.

At the center of Bullhead is something else altogether, a surprising brilliant study of sexual identity.

Nevertheless, whatever she put Wilder, Lemmon, Curtis, the crew, and their financial backers through was worth it for what's on screen: an outrageous, hilarious, and amazingly unpretentious trip through a funhouse of sexual identities.

As a woman unsure of her sexual identity, she comes to find herself through the much more self - confident Isadora Duncan (Lily - Rose Depp).

But things get complicated when he meets Elliot (Antonio Marziale), a handsome and charming gay kid from the other side of town, who unwittingly sends Alex on a rollercoaster journey of sexual identity, kicking off a hilarious and moving exploration of love, sex and friendship in our liberated and confusing modern times.

In 2014, the Office of Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education said this law covered discrimination on the basis of sexual identity.

The works subvert the straightforward readings of sexual identity we expect when we go to the movies.

The backlash against the infuriatingly shorthand «political correctness» for parity for women, people of color, and the full range of sexual identity really kicked in.

What was nice was the seamless mix of sexual identities — gay, straight, and much that lies between, in the birthplace of the new world.

He ponders the social determinants of sexual identity and studies the manners and conventions governing discourse between the sexes.

They also boldly took on subversive topics: Hartigan's work, for instance, explored themes of sexual identity and critiqued bridal imagery and consumerism decades before it became fashionable to do so.