The Bible and the Transgender Experience | How Scripture Supports Gender Variance (Herzer)

Finding the "T" in the Bible 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 Preview Table of Contents and Preface 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. 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 the