A feature-length documentary about Malcolm, a transgender man and his journey with faith, love and gender identity. Study materials, ordering and other information is available on the web at www.CallMeMalcolm.com or UC Resources.

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

This book identifies ways in which the common understanding of gender as two opposite sexes is harmful to people, moves beyond this current gender construct to offer vision of a new, more flexible gender paradigm, known as “omnigender,” and offers a vision of what such an omnigendered society might look like, including suggestions for the educational, scientific, and political steps it will take to get there.

by Lisa Mottet and Justin Tanis

The Nine Keys to Making Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organizations Fully Transgender-Inclusive. From National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute National Center for Transgender Equality

This comprehensive book deals specifically with transgendered youth and their care and counseling. It is an excellent resource for pastors, youth ministers, and campus ministers. It includes information specific to working with adolescents, as well as their families.

Trans-Gendered is the first title in a new series sponsored by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California.

“I have always felt drawn to those on the margins of the religious landscape, both from personal conviction and because the Bible clearly tells us that that is where we can locate the divine. Following Jesus has meant, for me as a Christian, a continuing journey to the margins, to spend time with those that society may ridicule and isolate, to see the beauty and power of God working with them. Transgendered people clearly occupy a marginal space in Western society. I believe that when we go to the margins, we see God.” - Justin Tanis

Tanis, a transgendered clergyperson seeks to explore the spiritual nature of transgendered persons, to listen to the stories of others like himself, and to give a positive voice to the community.

JUSTIN TANIS earned his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and his D.Min. from San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is director of leadership development for Metropolitan Community Churches in West Hollywood, California.

Personal stories, articles, resources, etc. about transgender identities, experiences, and Christian life.

Transgendering Faith is a resource to help churches respond with love and care to transgender people in our society, both those within the Christian community and those who find themselves--unhappily--outside its doors. It is also a book for transgender Christians, their families, pastoral counselors, and clergy.

The first section, "The Basics for Everyone," includes essays written by professionals and therapists who give readers a basic understanding of the transgender issue.

Part Two--"In Our Own Words"--features stories of transgender persons from diverse denominational, age, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. These are stories of their painful experiences of rejection, self-doubt and "Bible-flavored condemnation," but also stories celebrating God's blessing of who they are and their church and family experiences of hospitality, affirmation, and reconciliation.

Part Three includes worship resouces Bible studies, and transgender resources for individual and community use.

LEANNE McCALL TIGERT is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. She is the author of several books and coauthor of Coming Out Young and Faithful (2000), which won a Mayflower Award from The Pilgrim Press in 2003. She lives in Concord, New Hampshire.

MAREN C. TIRBASSI is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. She is co-author of DayBook for New Voices:A Calendar of Reflections and Prayers by and for Youth (The Pilgrim Press, 2004) and Blessing New Voices:Prayers of Young People and Worship Resouces for Youth Ministry. Tirabassi lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

In Where the Edge Gathers, Flunder uses examples of persons most marginalized by church and society to illustrate the use of "village ethics"--knowing where the boundaries are when all things are exposed--and "village theology"--giving everyone a seat at the central meeting place or welcome table.

She focuses on the following marginalized groups:

• Same-sex couples, to convey the need to re-examine sexual and relational ethics
• Transgendered persons, to illustrate the importance of radical inclusivity
• Gay persons living with AIDS, to emphasize the need to de-stigmatize society's view of any group of people

This book, which combines both Flunder's personal experiences of working with marginalized persons and literature on the topic--will appeal to denominational leaders and clergy who minister to the marginalized or the inner city. YVETTE A. FLUNDER is senior pastor of City of Refuge United Church of Christ in San Francisco, California. She received her M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and her D.Min. from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Flunder is also a renowned gospel recording artist.