Gender identity
On several occasions spanning the 1970s to the early 2000s while discussing homosexuality, church leaders have alluded to their belief that the homosexual feeling may stem from a confusion over one's gender identity or gender roles. Since then the church has acknowledged differences between gender identity and sexual orientation. Gender identity and roles play an important part in Latter-Day Saint teachings which teaches a strict binary of spiritual gender as literal offspring of divine parents. Church leaders have stated that they have unfinished business in teaching on the difficult and sensitive topic of transgender individuals.