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Understanding Gender Dysphoria: A Reply to Gagnon

Mark A. Yarhouse

I would like to thank Robert Gagnon for sharing his thoughts on my Christianity Today article, Understanding Gender Dysphoria. My article sought to briefly introduce the three frameworks (integrity,...

What the White House’s Opposition to “Conversion Therapy” Means

Mark A. Yarhouse

In early April, the Obama administration responded to an online petition calling for a “Leelah’s Law” that would ban “conversion” therapies. The petition, launched in response to the suicide...

Honest Sex Science

Stanton L. Jones Mark A. Yarhouse

Some people can change their sexual orientation with the help of therapy. So said Robert Spitzer—“considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry,” in the New York...