Author: Anna Mondal

“Who am I?” is a quandary common to humanity. But a teenager suffering from gender dysphoria battles a uniquely complex set of identity questions. How do we help teens who feel dissonance between their gender and their true selves? How do we meaningfully offer compassionate hope in Christ? Continue Reading →

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our bodies. A rape victim knows it wasn’t her fault, but her body still feels like trash. A girl struggling with anorexia is feather-weighted, but she feels fat. Our sense of identity is often mismatched from reality. We experience horrors or believe delusions that make untruth feel true. Similarly, a girl struggling with gender dysphoria—a girl who feels like a boy—is experiencing identity incongruence. Her feelings contradict physiology. Continue Reading →

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our bodies. A rape victim knows it wasn’t her fault, but her body still feels like trash. A girl struggling with anorexia is feather-weighted, but she feels fat. Our sense of identity is often mismatched from reality. We experience horrors or believe delusions that make untruth feel true. Similarly, a girl struggling with gender dysphoria—a girl who feels like a boy—is experiencing identity incongruence. Her feelings contradict physiology. Continue Reading →