The contemplation below is the entry for Day 46 in my Sex With God devotional. The Dance of Giving and Receiving Western notions of femininity tend to align with the idea of self-donation. Women are understood to be giving, caring, nurturing, and selfless by nature. The feminine sex is biologically constructed to open up, despite the vulnerability of the gift. So femininity is associated with being self-giving yet receptive. Masculinity, on the other hand, is associated with

The entry below is an excerpt from Holding on to Hope: Help for friends and family of transgender people. In a Vox article[1], transfeminine author Emily St. James wrote about gender being an interconnection of three ideas: gender as an innate part of the self, gender as a performance for society, and gender as a tool for dominance, hegemony, and control. The first idea (gender as innate) is pretty straightforward, and you’ve probably heard your loved one express it: they sim