You were baptized into the Lutheran church as an adult. So half of all author royalties will go to the Trans Justice Funding Project, which supports grass-roots efforts for trans justice.
The people I interviewed were so free with their own stories I wanted to give something back. So much of the book I could not have done without the trans community. I wanted gender-nonconforming and gender-diverse folks to read Scripture with a sense of representation, to think, “That person looks like me!” I also wanted trans people to say, “Not only are there people like me in the Bible, but also people like me living right now, as trans Christians, fully thriving.” I wove these into a single narrative to show how all our stories have a similar current running through them, to say, “You are connected you’re not alone.” Your book weaves together the stories of trans peoples’ experiences and also the stories of Scripture. After I started Transgender and Christian, the question was: How can I dig deeper into these topics in an accessible written form?
There was a vacuum as far as Scripture and exegesis. The only fairly easy-to-read book about trans theology was Trans-Gendered by Justin Tanis-and it was out of print. Hartke: When I was coming out, I couldn’t find resources that addressed “clobber passages” used against trans folks. Living Lutheran : How did you decide to write Transforming ? Paul, Minn., and winner of the school’s 2014 John Milton Prize in Old Testament Writing, about his work, his passion for youth ministry, and his hopes for expanding resources for trans people. Living Lutheran spoke with Hartke, a graduate of Luther Seminary, St. His online work became the basis for his new book, Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018), a collection of biblical and modern narratives from gender-nonconforming people of faith. Austen Hartke is the creator of the YouTube series Transgender and Christian, which seeks to understand and interpret Scripture related to gender identity and transgender people.
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