The author’s background

The author, a non-transgender pastor, spent three years serving a church where ten percent of the congregation identified as trans men, trans women, cross-dressers, or genderqueer. This motivated her to learn about gender-variant people and to expand her previous understanding of the Bible.

Who should read this book

A must-read for all pastors, chaplains, counselors, and congregants, and for family and friends of transgender people, as well as for gender-variant individuals seeking to find their stories in the biblical narrative, and desiring to know how scripture supports them.

What the book explores

"The Bible and the Transgender Experience" explores:

• whether or not God creates only two genders
• what Jesus had to say about gender variance
• various understandings of “the cross-dressing passage”
• gender variant groups and individuals in scripture
• the movement, within scripture itself, from the exclusion of gender variant people to their inclusion within the people of God