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 them. "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