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A review by ian_
Emerging Gender Identities: Understanding the Diverse Experiences of Today's Youth by Julia Sadusky, Mark Yarhouse
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.25
Such a hopeful and encouraging book. Also very challenging. The authors offer practical, pastoral wisdom for listening to those with gender identity questions and and accompanying them on the journey, even if it's messy, even if we don't have all the answers, even if it takes a lifetime of questions and wrestling. This book is full of radical grace without sacrificing conviction. At first I was disappointed that there wasn't really a positive theology of gender presented, but that's not what the book is about. The book is about caring for people, and it seemed like the authors were intentional about making such care relevant for people of many different perspectives, including what the authors describe as "fundamentalist/hyperconservative, orthodox, and liberal." This seems like a good book for parents, pastors, counselors, youth leaders, or anyone who loves (or will love) someone for whom gender identity is experienced as complicated or an area of question or concern.