Books like Balancing on the mechitza by Noach Dzmura

A transgender middle‑school girl navigates her identity and friendship when she strives to play Charlotte in her class theater production, with help from her best friend to reveal her true self.

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others―challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories. These creative, evocative readings transform our understanding of the Torah’s portrayals of God, humanity, and relationships between them.

A historical overview and critical examination of the black church’s relationship with lesbian and gay Christians, offering guidance for churches to confront all forms of oppression and better serve the African American community.

Omnigender explores how Hebrew and Christian scriptures, church history, and other religious traditions intersect with contemporary gender theory, honoring people who transcend the traditional binary—intersex, transsexual, or otherwise gendered—within a religious context.

From the URJ Website: This revised edition reflects the changes in Jewish life and ritual since it was first published in 1988. The Jewish Home explains many of the "whys" of major Jewish holidays and lifecycle events. The birth of a child, wedding ceremony, b'nei mitzvah and Shabbat are only a few of the topics discussed in Daniel Syme's landmark guide. Readers learn about Jewish rituals and practice, their symbolism, and their historical and cultural roots in an easy-to-follow question and answer format. A Feldman Library Fund publication.

The Transgender Studies Reader compiles fifty key texts, introduced by Susan Stryker, charting the field’s development within queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality.

Assuming a Body examines how gender is produced by the disjunction between bodily experience and physical form, using phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory to reveal transgender embodiment as a vital lens on gender and identity.

A compelling story of four trans girls forming a community in Los Angeles, with a memorable author's reporting style.

Photographic essays of transgender and queer individuals—male‑to‑female, female‑to‑male, and queer youth—combined with brief texts, offering intimate portraits of lives shaped by gender fluidity.