The Assignment (2- to 3-page paper):Use the five-family life-cycle stages listed in the Sexuality in Adulthood Across the Family Life Cycle chart to organize your thoughts for this assignment. For this paper:Explain the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation, and why it is important professionally to understand this difference.Explain cultural influences on gender and sexuality. Consider both cisgender and transgender experiences.Explain specific challenges an individual who is transgender or gender non-binary may experience related to their sexuality.Explain how you would advocate within your professional role for gender variant clients.Notes:Please make sure the posted assignment is Zero Percent Plagiarism.Running heads are not to be on the paper.Make sure paper is in APA 7 formatting.Make sure paragraphs are indented and aligned to the left.Please provide a reference page and references throughout the paper.Please use the following references for this assignment:ReferencesLevine, S. B., Risen, C. B., & Althof, S. E. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of clinical sexuality for mental health professionals (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 27, ‘Transgender Phenomena’ (pp. 331-344)American Psychological Association. (2015). Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people. American Psychologist, 70(9), 832-864.Davis, G., Dewey, J. M., & Murphy, E. L. (2016). Giving sex: Deconstructing intersex and trans medicalization practices. Gender & Society, 30(3), 490-514.Richards, C., Bouman, W. P., Seal, L., Barker, M. J., Nieder, T. O., & T’Sjoen, G. (2016). Non-binary or genderqueer genders. International Review Of Psychiatry, 28(1), 95-102. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/waldenu.edu?url=https://doi.org/10.3109/09540261.2015.1106446Rutter, P. A. (2012). Sex therapy with gay male couples using affirmative therapy. Sexual & Relationship Therapy, 27(1), 35–45.Intersex Society of North America. (2008). Frequently asked questions. Retrieved from http://www.isna.org/faq/printableRocero, G. (2014, March). Why I must come out . Retrieved form https://www.ted.com/talks/geena_rocero_why_i_must_come_out

From the reading in Chapter 2 – Which in your opinion is the most useful in a research study with participants a Single Blind or a Double Blind?  Explain your reason for one or the other.In this thread you are to build the discussion from the topic above. Each student is to address the conversation with ONE full thought in a well designed and complete paragraph. Each student will be graded on the ONE paragraph, additional paragraphs are welcome in the conversation but only the first paragraph issued will be graded. The grade per-paragraph/discussion will be five (5) points.Rules of the thread for students: Comments are remain in the realm of the conversation/topic. No comments are to attack, put down, or criticize other students. Academic rules still apply in all threads. Proper and good academic wording is to be used (no slang or fowl language). Comments are to be well thought out and in a complete paragraph. A complete paragraph in a thread has at least 5 complete sentences with the following components. Introduction sentence, 3-5 sentences of the conversation/discussion, Conclusion sentence.Thread should be completed by the due date and no late thread/conversations from students will be accepted.