#GenderSpecialties | AffirmingGender

Appreciating the Overlap…and Not

By Sam A. Andreades April 25, 2025 April 25, 2025 0

This month, fencer Stephanie Turner declined to face a male opponent. In response, USA Fencing made the same mistake as Serena Williams made in tennis in 1998.

Technology as a Gender-Distinguisher

By Sam A. Andreades May 20, 2022 May 19, 2022 0

A prescient fictional story shows how the genders will likely interact with the increasingly immersive tech of our lives.

Gender Comes in Specialties

By Sam A. Andreades April 23, 2017 April 23, 2017 0

To help explain how gender operates, I offer a few excerpts from enGendered, chapter 12: Specialties are things we all might do sometimes, but the specialist focuses on especially doing them. We may do many things for each other that are the same, but the gender magic happens when we lean into the asymmetries. Just as, physically, both males …

What's a Real Man? What's a True Woman?

Is gender real? Does it matter in relationships? What does God think about it? So many diverse questions on peoples' lips today come down to the same thing: What does gender mean? Is it a construct of society or self-perception? Or is it a gift to foster intimacy and fruitfulness in our relationships?

This site fosters honest and thoughtful conversation about the pressing issue of gender. I write from a Christian perspective, placing great value on the Bible's wisdom about it. But just understanding the Bible's message on gender is a big job for our time, and so part of what we discuss here. We also take up questions posed by our current culture's sometimes confusing views on women & men, relationships and identity.

If you are new here, you might want to start with the Big Picture posts, Three Questions... and Want It In A Nutshell?, briefly outlining what I see as the seven main principles of gender.

The posts consist of commentary on current events, excerpts from my general book, transgenderism book, or book on dating, Biblical exposition, praise for the culture’s gender goodness and ruminations on its errors as I see them. We also welcome guest posts from gender-savvy writers.

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