![]() ![]() We could call this a Genesis 3 perspective: Since the Fall, things are not as they ought to be. The Disability Framework views gender dysphoria with regard to mental health.We could think of this as the Genesis 1 and 2 perspective. The Integrity Framework views gender in terms of roles assigned by the Creator.Second, Yarhouse describes three conceptual frameworks that people use to describe issues of sexual identity: ![]() ![]() I, as a missionary to my culture, need to communicate in a way that can be received. I do not have to agree with the various usages, but if I want to engage in a discussion at my local school, I need to know how the terms are being used. The term gender dysphoria is defined as the distress resulting from a conflict between a person’s biological sex and his or her gender identity. For example, sex generally refers to biological sex and gender refers to how that is culturally expressed. In this work, Yarhouse does several helpful things.įirst, he clarifies the terms being used in the field. During that time, I have watched the church be more engaged in cultural warfare than in missional work among persons who identify along the LGBTQ cluster of letters. I attended the 2016 EFCA Theology Conference with great interest, mainly to hear from Mark Yarhouse on the topic of gender dysphoria.* I have been living in the center of a very progressive city for the past 20 years. ![]()
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