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Hi! I asked something similar a couple months ago and struggled to find good resources.

One good book I found for conservative people was this. It was surprisingly good. It still takes a conservative approach towards marriage but in the midst of that tells parents to love their kids and be involved in their lives. As for trans people it stresses the importance of respecting pronouns and names. All in all its a pretty good (also well designed) book for conservative folks. It helped my parents (my dad's a pastor in a conservative denomination) when I came out as trans a few months ago.

Also if you ever want to chat my DMs are open.

>Can I still be a Christian and be transgender and queer?

YES! There are thousands of us all across the globe, you are definately not alone, sis. Here's a great book you should check out, https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Bible-Lives-Transgender-Christians/dp/0664263100

>To be honest I feel like God doesn’t accept me if for feeling this way :(

You feel that way because it looks like the only thing you have ever been taught. Hang around here more, and over on r/OpenChristian, meet and get to know other queer Christians. We've got a discord link around here and there somewhere. Also, head over to https://gaychurch.org , and find an affirming church near you, support and fellowship is crucial as well.

Understanding Gender Dysphoria by Mark Yarhouse is excellent. It’s not too long, but goes into detail about what being trans is, possible causes, and what should be done as a trans Christian. He supports transition as the solution to GD, and shows what churches should do to help trans Christians as well. I highly recommend it.

I feel you on this. Trans people both online and IRL are often unreasonably hostile to Christianity.

However, I also understand that for them their distaste for Christianity is very often rooted in real pain and personal experience. My faith and upbringing in the church has been the most difficult part of transitioning for me. Growing up in a conservative evangelical bubble you don't hear much about trans people and what you hear about them isn't good. For many conservative Christians they equate anything LGBT with sexual sin and focus on it as an example of worldly rebellion.

This is not just the case for the leaders of those groups, but also for the individuals who are adjacent to them. Christianity is often used to justify outright bigotry on a personal level. I've read so many stories of people coming out and their families refusing to accept them by cloaking their prejudices as deep Christian conviction. My own parents did something very similar. It is not that these people have long pondered the nature of gender, the relevant biblical passages, and how exceptions to the standard binary pattern fit into them. Rather, it seems to be attempting to justify their previously held cultural beliefs with religion and reading their prejudices into religious texts (which trans people are not the first victims of by a long shot).

Because of this a lot of people who joined the trans community had these very negative experiences with Christians and the church and are justifiably angry at how they were treated. If someone was forced to go through some type of conversion therapy in the past or lost their family in the name of Christ then they have every right to be angry.

I believe this is slowly changing and books like this one are proof of that. We are in the position of being ambassadors to both groups: both to show Christians that we aren't perverts who reject God and to show the trans community that the gospel is not source of bigotry and pain they thought it was.