Here are books not directly related to Christianity and transgenderism but may be helpful anyway.
Hermaphrodeities
Raven Brangwyn Kaldera
Written
by an genderqueer, intersex pagan describing the text as a workbook, it gives a
variety of value. Foremost to me were about twenty accounts of
hermaphroditic deities, mostly from the European continent. I had no
idea there were so many. Like Eliade, I think that pagan gods are
indicative of what humanity means to humans, and apparently
transgenderism manifested through hermaphrodites is a large part of
that. They also reveal the origin of transphobia and the power of being
trans.
Every chapter contains
discussion/personal questions, mostly genderqueer in nature, that are
pretty meaty, though I haven't talked about them with others. There
are a lot of interviews with religious trans people, mostly pagans but
a couple Christians. They have a lot of identities and perspectives,
but they all speak very positively, I almost say gratefully, about
being trans. I didn't have much use for the last element, suggested
hermaphroditic rituals, that seem only useful to pagans. Read an excerpt.
Trading My Sorrows
This is a short, self-published autobiography by Walt Heyer.
God's Word to Women
Katherine Bushnell
Before I came as trans, I was a flaming Christian feminist, God's
Word to Women is the strongest weapon for any feminist arsenal.
If nothing else, it will demonstrate how to biblically remove gender roles out of the gender binary. She writes an
intense chapter "proving" that Adam was an androgyne which is still
the most convincing case I've seen so far. The text is all public
domain and online, including this particular chapter. Bushnell is, surprisingly, in all other ways a Fundamentalist Christian.
I don't hold her writings as infallible as I once did.
Straight & Narrow
Straight
& Narrow seeks to give a calm and cool look at the issue of
homosexuality in the Bible. Though it fails, I believe, and unequivocally denounces gays and lesbians based on Scripture, it's the
best book I've encountered; for that I thought it deserves a mention.
The
strength of this text is that it actually tells you in honest terms
what its dissenters are saying about the same subject. That's brave.
Many should learn from this! However, this is also a great weakness.
When I was first questioning the condemnation of homosexuality by
Christians, I should have read this book because it would have
convinced me that it is no sin at all simply by becoming exposed to the
alternate interpretations and watching the text fail to answer them
properly.
I often have a naive faith that if Christians are just
educated enough, if they actually listened to the right ideas, the
truth would set us all free. This book proves me wrong and it saddens
me. Even while articulating the pro-gay view, it fails miserably to
answer it and sometimes I wonder if the author even realizes he is
failing it seems so pathetic.