Dr. Julia Sadusky

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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex · Why So Many Young People Feel Confused About Sexuality, #613 · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Such a great question.

And it's so good to be back with you, Julie.

I would just say that Emerging Gender Identities was really a book trying to account for the shifts around people's experience of embodiment.

So think in terms of how I experienced being a body and then what that means for language and categories around gender in particular.

And so there was a shift in an expanding landscape Mark and I were observing clinically

where people were using terms we hadn't heard before.

So non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid.

And we thought if we didn't know what those terms were, how much more so people in ministry and in the church might have felt like they were on their back foot, accompanying young people, especially asking those questions.

So that was that first book.

And then Mark and I, over the last several years, have really wanted to write a kind of parallel mirror book

that really looks more at the categories of sexual orientation and how queer theory and how just shifts in understandings about gender have really impacted how people use language to talk about who they're attracted to.

And we were seeing a lot of expanding categories in that as well.

And so again, we really wanted to give parents and ministers and really pastors, anybody who cares,

as a Christian, a chance to really get the lay of the land here more effectively.

Such a great question.

I mean, I think so many categories of language are shifting over time.

I mean, language is a tool to try to communicate, but it can be very overwhelming to, as you said, feel like you have to Google terminology and kind of get to the bottom of it.

You know, what we tried to do in the book is really list out key questions to ask somebody when they share these terms.

So to know that these terms exist, to be able to notice your kind of gut reaction to them and manage that as best you can while you're asking more thoughtful questions to understand what a person means when they use the term, which could be different than the Google definition.

Absolutely.

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