I think a lot of people worry, can I be too compassionate?

And it's an interesting question, right?

Because it signals maybe a concern about what can happen if we lean into compassion.

And what my faith lets me do is see through the eyes of the other with richness, with

complexity, seeing somebody as made in the image and likeness of God, and hold true to the

beliefs that I have, not sacrificing those, but actually letting those inform the way I treat people

and my ideas of how to help a person thrive.

Hey friend, welcome to Job with Julie. This is a listener-supported podcast and an outreach of authentic intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality. Well, sometimes

people will ask me, what trends do you see happening in our world related to sexuality?

One of the undeniable trends within the last few years is the issue of gender. It hardly a week

goes by that I don't hear from someone, often it's a parent or sibling, who's walking alongside

a person who has identified as transgender or non-binary.

My heart for this podcast, JobLit Julie, is that we are willing to talk about the issues and topics that are really difficult to navigate.

And this is definitely one of them.

I'm really grateful to be able to share today my conversation with someone who is in the trenches of guiding

individuals and families through this type of journey. Her name is Dr. Julia Sedeski. She's the co-author

of the book Emerging Gender Identities. She wrote that book with Dr. Mark Yarrhouse, who was a guest

on job with Julie earlier this year. Julie earned a doctorate in psychology from Regent University,

and her dissertation focused on the experience of loneliness

in Christian sexual minorities who are navigating permanent singleness.

I sat down with Julia in Littleton, Colorado, where she is in private practice,

and we talked about how

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