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Trans Faith Books
A Bibliography

Christian-Focus

OmniGender by Virginia Mollenkott

Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry and Communities of Faith by Justin Tanis

Gross, Sally (MS 1997): Intersexuality and Scripture. MS Eastbourne, East Sussex.

The Cross and the Crossdresser by Vanessa Sheridan.

Cross Purposes: On Being Christian and CrossGendered by Vanessa Sheridan. Published by Sullivan Press, division of AEGIS, Box 33724, Decatur, GA 30033.

• "...absorbing reading for many hours. ...Some people might get bored or turned off reading the first two or three chapters which set the tone for the book, but the remainder of the book discusses faith in Christ, love and the problems of the formal religous institutions with reguard to the transgendered. These last few chapters, as well as the author's personal in-depth story makes it all worthwhile. Vanessa's story mirrors many of our own stories (including mine), only the names and dates were changed. Do read it." - Juli

Crossing: A Memoir by Deirdre McClosky, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in September 1999.

• It's an account of her transition and is arranged Donald-Dee-Deirdre: coming to the realization; starting with heavy opposition from my sister; getting there. Her spiritual journey is a theme, but not the dominant one. The dominant ones are the doubt, the struggle, and the differences.

Misc Transgender Consciousness

Bornstein, Kate (1998). My Gender Workbook. New York: Routledge.

Bornstein, Kate (1995). Gender Outlaw: On Men,Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge.

Burke, Phyllis (1996). Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female. New York, NY: Anchor Books.

Butler, Judith (1990): Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York, NY: Routledge.

Butler, Judith (1993): Bodies that matter. New York, NY: Routledge.

Ettner, Randi (1996). Confessions of a Gender Defender. Evanston, IL: Chicago Spectrum Press.

Feinberg, Leslie (Due 1998). Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue. Boston: Beacon Press.

Feinberg, Leslie (1996). Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul. Boston: Beacon Press.

She/He--Pratt

Wilchins, Riki Ann (1997). Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. New York: Firebrand Books.

Native American Traditions

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, Walter L. Williams, Boston, Beacon Press, 1986.

• Native Americans believed that men who crossdressed and performed in the role of women (often while fulfilling male roles) had special spiritual gifts.. The importance these men played in the Native American civilization is recorded here for the first time.

The Wolves of Heaven; Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies and Prehistoric Origins, Karl H. Schleiser, Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

• A thorough examination of the hemaneh (half-man, half-woman) of the Cheyenne tribe and their involvement in Cheyenne thought, religion, history and custom. Coming under particular scrutiny is the Massaum ceremony which was last performed in 1927.

Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America by Will Roscoe. St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.

The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen

With a New Preface, Beacon Press.

"TransFaith: Books" compiled by Chris Paige; https://www.angelfire.com/on/otherwise/transbooks.html

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