Thirty years ago almost no one was talking about things like transgenderism, gender dysphoria, and gender identity. These just were not items for thought or discussion up until recently. Now of course there is nowhere in the West where they are not being mentioned, promoted, and militantly agitated for. And many folks who dare to resist this onslaught are now paying a heavy price for doing so.
Just as with the homosexual activism, where so many people daring to not go along with this lost their jobs, were fined, or were even arrested, so too now with the rampaging trans zealots going after anyone who does not subscribe to this madness. But of course the real losers here are women and children especially.
The huge amount of damage we are now seeing with children being maimed for life and women’s rights being violated is now a daily occurrence, and it is getting worse. Thus we need to arm ourselves with facts, information and truth. We cannot idly sit by as these militants cause so much long-term damage to our society and our people.
That is why I here offer a list of some of the best books on the topic that have appeared so far, and some quotes from two of them. As for my bibliography, it features 40 volumes: 29 from Christian writers and 11 from non-Christian authors.
Christian authors
Anderson, Ryan, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Encounter Books, 2018.
Branch, J. Alan, Affirming God’s Image. Lexham Press, 2019.
Favale, Abigail, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. Ignatius, 2022.
Ferguson, Samuel, Does God Care about Gender Identity? Crossway, 2023.
Griffo, Luke, The Beauty of the Binary: Male and Female He Created Them. Founders Press, 2023.
Grossman, Miriam, Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness. Skyhorse, 2023.
Heyer, Walt, Articles of Impeachment against Sex Change Surgery. 2020.
Heyer, Walt, Gender, Lies and Suicide. Make Waves, 2013.
Heyer, Walt, Paper Genders. Make Waves, 2011.
Heyer, Walt, Perfected with Love. Xulon Press, 2009.
Heyer, Walt, Trading My Sorrows. Xulon Press, 2006.
Heyer, Walt, Trans Life Survivors. 2018.
Heyer, Walt, A Transgender’s Faith. CreateSpace, 2015.
James, Sharon, Gender Ideology. Christian Focus, 2019.
Lahl, Jennifer and Kallie Fell, The Detransition Diaries. Ignatius Press, 2024.
McGuire, Ashley, Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female. Regnery Publishing, 2017.
Nolland, Lisa Severine, et. al., The New Normal. Wilberforce Publications, 2018.
Olohan, Mary Margaret, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult. Regnery, 2024.
Roberts, Vaughan, Transgender. The Good Book Company, 2016.
Seiler, Linda, Trans-Formation: A Former Transgender Responds to LGBTQ. Credo House, 2023.
Smith, Kirralie, Devastated: How Gender Ideology is Tearing Australian Families Apart. Gender Awareness Australia, 2024.
Smith, Robert, The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory. Lexham Academic, 2025.
Smith, Robert, How Should We Think About Gender and Identity? Lexham Press, 2022.
Sprinkle, Preston, Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say. David C. Cook, 2021.
Strachan, Owen and Gavin Peacock, What Does the Bible Teach About Transgenderism? Christian Focus, 2020.
Urbanowicz Elizabeth, Helping Your Kids Know God’s Good Design: 40 Questions and Answers on Sexuality and Gender. Harvest House, 2025.
Walker, Andrew, God and the Transgender Debate, 2nd ed. The Good Book Company, 2017, 2022.
Weerakoon, Patricia, The Gender Revolution. Matthias Media, 2023.
Yarhouse, Mark, Understanding Gender Dysphoria. IVP, 2015.
Non-Christian authors
A., Josie and Dina S., eds. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids. Pitchstone Publishing, 2023.
Ayad, Sasha, Lisa Marchiano and Stella O’Malley, When Kids Say They’re Trans: A Guide for Parents. Pitchstone Publishing, 2023.
Barrett, Ruth, ed., Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights. Tidal Time Publishing, 2016.
Blade, Linda and Barbara Kay, Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport. Rebel News, 2021.
Brewer, Erin with Maria Keffler, Transing Our Children. Independently published, 2021.
Joyce, Helen, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. Oneworld, 2021.
London, Oli, Gender Madness: One Man’s Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect Children. Skyhorse, 2023.
Moore, Michele and Heather Brunskell-Evans, eds., InventingTransgender Children and Young People. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
Shrier, Abigail, Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze. Swift, 2020.
Soh, Debra, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society. Threshold Editions, 2020.
Stock, Kathleen, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism. Fleet, 2021.
Quotes
All of these 40 books are worth getting, but there are two recent volumes that are quite good indeed and are worth paying close attention to – and quoting from. One is from an Australian Anglican and the other is by an American Catholic.
Smith, Robert, The Body God Gives
Smith’s brand-new book is a very detailed and thorough biblical and theological assessment of trans theory and practice. At 450 pages, it covers all the bases and is a must read. Here are two helpful quotes from the book’s Conclusion:
The key conclusions arising from my theological exposition of Scripture may be summarized in seven points:
There are and remain only two human sexes—male and female. Intersex conditions do not constitute a third sex.
The two sexes are equal in dignity and value (both being made in the image of God) but different in form and function.
Because the biological (sex) undergirds the psychosocial-cultural (gender), sexed embodiment is foundational to personal identity.
Human beings are psychosomatic unities. Because sex is first and foremost a bodily property, the soul takes its sex from the body.
To the extent that the body’s sex (or the male-female distinction) is denied, disguised, or diminished, gender will be inauthentic and unfaithful.
If a husband or wife transitions genders, the marriage and its witness will be formally (if not also substantially) undermined.
The divine purpose is to raise our bodies with their biological sex and the gender identity that corresponds to that sex.
In view of Scripture’s consistent affirmation of both the sex-and-gender binary and the sex-and-gender connection, the claim of trans theory has been found to be without foundation and so its implication does not follow. The sexed body does determine the gendered self and so should ground gender identity, guide gender roles, and govern gender expression….
It is God’s commitment to the liberation and transfiguration of the created order that explains why both the sex-and-gender binary and the sex-and-gender connection remain nonnative for his Image bearers throughout all four acts of the biblical drama—creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. Furthermore, it is this anthropological and moral normativity that not only makes possible a coherent theo-ethical response to trans theory but also reveals the Christian’s sexual vocation: to faithfully steward his or her sexed identity by working with the grain of creation toward the goal of new creation. (pp. 368-369)
The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theoryby Smith, Robert S. (Author)
[O]ur hope lies not in the obliteration of sex-and-gender binary and the sex-and-gender connection, but in their purification from all that is fallen, fractured, and sinful, and their transformation into all that is true, good, and beautiful.
This is why, rather than attempting to “undo creation,” the gospel of Jesus Christ points to another way — a way of redemption, restoration, and, finally, resurrection. Indeed, as “the image of the invisible God” in whom, through whom, and for whom “all things were created,” Jesus himself is that way (John 14:6; Col 1:15-16). Accordingly, it is his acceptance that is the key to true self-acceptance, just as it Is his indwelling that is the key to true transformation. Hence, we shall only become the men and women we were created to be by coming to Jesus, receiving his Spirit, sharing in his Identity, and being conformed to his likeness (Matt 11:28; Rom 8:29).
As we have seen, the process of christification is, fundamentally, a matter of character transformation—for the “new self’ in Christ is “created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness” (Eph 4:24). Nevertheless, the process will ultimately issue in bodily transformation (Phil 3:21) —for “just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven” (1 Cor 15:49). This should come as no surprise. The incarnation and resurrection of Jesus not only affirm the essential goodness of human embodiment but confirm that just as his sex is basic to his whole human existence, so our sex grounds our identities and will continue do so in the coming ages. Thus, the body God gives will forever remain foundational to personal identity, and sex the eternal ground of gender. (pp. 371-372)
Favale, Abigail, The Genesis of Gender
The author was at one time heavily into the feminist and postmodernist scene (specifically French poststructuralist feminism), until she became a Catholic. Here she looks at how we must fully affirm male and female as the only true rational and biblical view on these issues, offering a philosophical, theological, medical and sociological case for this. She writes:
The bizarre idea that biological sex is “assigned” at birth for everyone is one of several myths about sex that have gained widespread acceptance in our time. These myths tend to cluster together….
Human bodies are teleologically organized according to our distinct role in reproducing the species. The structure of our bodies is arranged to produce either large sex cells or small sex cells. These sex cells are called gametes. Large gametes are ova, and small gametes are sperm. A physiology arranged to produce ova is female, and a physiology arranged to produce sperm is male. This twofold distinction between large and small gametes is stable and universal, not only throughout the human species, but also among all plant and animal species that reproduce sexually.
There is no such thing as a third gamete or a spectrum of possible gametes. This invariable feature of our humanity ties us intimately to the rest of creation. When the gametes combine, they can create a new member of the species. The sex binary, then, is the necessary foundation for the continued transmission of human existence. (If it’s just a construct, we’re in trouble.)
Rather than arbitrarily assigned at birth, a baby’s sex is determined at conception, through the SRY gene [sex-determining region Y gene] (or its absence). This gene is the master switch of sexual differentiation; if triggered, the SRY gene initiates a process of sexual development toward the production of male gametes. Without successful SRY activation, the gonads of a developing baby become ovaries, which are structured to produce female gametes. (pp. 123-124)
One more quote:
In the 1950s, the phrase “gender role” first appeared on the scene, thanks to its coinage by psychologist John Money.3 Money, whose work is now considered controversial, to put it mildly, was one of the first prominent advocates of a tabula rasa view of the human person. Biological sex, he argued, does not have an intrinsic connection to men and women’s social roles and behaviors. He drew a distinction between sex, a mere biological fact, and “gender”—a social identity that is a product of culture rather than nature.
John Money’s most famous patient was David Reimer, who was brought to him as a baby after his penis was disfigured during a botched circumcision. Money, who believed that gender was entirely socially constructed, convinced David’s parents to raise him as a girl and entrust him to Money’s clinical supervision. David happened to be an identical twin, and Money saw a golden opportunity to run a controlled experiment to test his theories. David’s parents unfortunately agreed, subjecting him to more genital surgeries and renaming him Brenda….
Money’s attempt to demonstrate the veracity of his theories failed catastrophically; his theories proved to be not only erroneous, but fatal for his two research subjects. Unfortunately, this tragedy took decades to play out, and in the meantime, Money’s malleable and disembodied concept of gender swept through the academy, becoming thoroughly entrenched in feminist theory in the social sciences. (pp. 145-146)
As mentioned, all the books listed here are of value. Some of them I have already written full reviews of, such as Anderson, Nolland and Heyer (2018). So try to get some of these volumes and arm yourself with the knowledge needed to stand against these sexual revolutionaries.
