Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry
Week 2: Part One — The Making of Me
Read Part One of Gay Girl, Good God (chapters covering Jackie's childhood, her fatherlessness, and early identity formation). Key Scripture: Psalm 27:10; Genesis 1:27
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Jackie's story does not begin with sexuality — it begins with a father's absence and a little girl learning to make sense of herself without him. Sit with the complexity of how we are all shaped before we ever choose anything.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Jackie describes growing up without her father and how that absence left a wound that shaped the way she understood herself as a girl and as a person. How does she connect fatherlessness to her later gender confusion — and how careful is she not to make that a simple cause-and-effect argument?
2.She writes honestly about feeling more comfortable with masculinity than with femininity from a very young age — not as a moral failure but as a felt reality. How does understanding that felt reality change the way you engage someone whose experience is similar?
3.Jackie does not treat her childhood experiences as excuses, but she does treat them as context. What is the difference between excusing behavior through backstory and understanding it through backstory? Why does that distinction matter pastorally?
a.Can you think of a wound from your own past that has shaped a desire or a pattern in you — one that felt completely natural but that you have come to see differently?
b.How does understanding your own backstory help you extend compassion rather than contempt toward others?
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