Gender Issues

Gender and sexual identity are two separate areas of human experience that are often conflated. The challenge in working effectively with these different domains of human experience requires first an acknowledgement of these two different domains and how they play out in any given individual's life. One's gender can be considered to be more than a social-cultural construct. Gender implies one feels on the inside, whether that be primarily masculine, feminine, something in-between, or none of the above. The ability to cultivate a connection with who one is on the inside is a life-long process of individuation we all come to terms with in our own unique ways.

Sexual identity is more a matter concerning to whom it is a person is sexually attracted. At the level of the unconscious, there can be an experience of polymorphous sexual expression. This experience inspires each of us to pleasure oneself in ways that feel right and give fuller expression to who one is as a person who expresses oneself privately but participates in a larger human community.