![]() Moore: Every historical period has its peculiar challenges. After I graduated and was developing my own lines of research and setting up my clinical practice, I would see people who were navigating either sexual or gender identity questions in light of their Christian faith. In any case, there is overlap in research and clinical practice between sexual orientation and gender identity, at least in childhood, when there is greater gender atypicality among children who later grow up to identify as gay or transgender. ![]() We were looking at what science actually says about key areas of research, such as etiology, and how scientific findings were being used in the debate to move the discussion down a certain path. When he asked me to serve as his research assistant it was to work on a line of research on the use of scientific research in the church’s moral debates about homosexuality. His expertise was in two areas: human sexuality and the integration of psychology and theology. ![]() Yarhouse: When I was completing my doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Wheaton College, I had the opportunity to serve as research assistant to Stanton Jones, who was at the time the department chair. ![]() ![]() Moore: What and/or who was instrumental in getting you interested in this most challenging subject of gender dysphoria? ![]()
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