Transforming, Updated and Expanded Edition with Study Guide

Okay! Here are some resources I'm aware of. https://www.hrc.org/resources/what-does-the-bible-say-about-transgender-people https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-God-Think-Transgender/dp/0995180741 https://queergrace.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Bible-Lives-Transgender-Christians/dp/0664267866/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7mHzEcaVbE https://pflag.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/S4E-Trans-Ally-Guide-FINAL.pdf

The Christian bible teaches acceptance of trans people through a variety of passages, such as: • Isaiah 56:3-5, where Isaiah, whom some have argued to be Christ's favorite Old Testament prophet btw https://kayalexander.substack.com/p/trans-people-in-the-bible-or-how says that the Lord will give a memorial and a superior, everlasting name better than sons and daughters to the eunuchs, a group that was marginalized because their genitals did not match what society expected • Matthew 19:12, where Jesus echoes Isaiah and commands you to accept eunuchs • Acts 8:26-39, where St. Philip welcomes and baptizes a person we might call intersex or trans today • Galatians 3:28, where St. Paul proclaims there is no longer male and female for all of you are one in Christ Jesus • the passages where Jesus heals multiple people with natural illnesses which means that any medically necessary treatment, including trans healthcare, is in line with Christian morality The term sārîs (סריס) appears in the Old Testament 42 times: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h5631/kjv/wlc/rl1/0-1/ The term εὐνοῦχος appears in the New Testament 8 times: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g2135/kjv/tr/0-1/ Meanwhile, Satan makes just 3 appearances in the whole bible – all of them strictly allegorical. https://youtu.be/X7VavMKXxyE There is no Christian justification to persecute trans people. https://youtu.be/eVyQHp6jq9U https://www.hrc.org/resources/what-does-the-bible-say-about-transgender-people Here are some books written by transgender Christians talking about their experience for further reading: • "In The Margins" by Shannon T.L. Kearns • Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians https://a.co/d/09Aooh9T http://austenhartke.com/book by Austen Hartke, a trans Christian with a seminary degree who’s written a ton of texts on being trans and Christian and the owner of the YouTube channel "Trans and Christian": https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwWfCs7vnwdC1wbIAmH3_kIm0fE7oN9tE • Radical Love by Patrick Cheng • Outside the Lines by Mihee Kim-Kort • Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for gender-queer and transgender people by Suzanne DeWitt Hall: https://www.amazon.com/Transfigured-journey-scripture-gender-queer-transgender/dp/0986408034 • These are all poetry, but Vanishing Song by Jay Hulme and Propositions on Being Alive by Lilia Marie Ellis • Not exactly a book, but the paper "Letter to Admin" by Lucas Frederick: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vT8J2yhDAPQcYlIScRGyvUiXPWcKtwbeuyeHw0loC7jyI-Bk4Ea44cWrhtQjwr1npimE5c5qNJ7AV5w/pub