Read a June 3, 2013 story about the uncovering of former Navy Seal Kristin Beck’s trans-identity after his retirement.

Read a June 25, 2013 Denver Post article about the Colorado Civil Rights Division’s backing of Coy Mathis, a transgender six-year-old who was told she could no longer use the women’s bathroom at Eagleside Elementary School.

Read a Dec. 2, 2006, New York Times story about the dilemmas parents and schools face when children don’t conform to gender norms.

Read an May 23, 2007 Christian Post article about issues concerning transgendered people portrayed through the media.

Read an April 24, 2012 Huffington Post article about the anti-discrimination law ruling that protects transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace.

Read a Jan. 18, 2013 Tribune Star article about the ordination of transgender Shannon T.L. Kearns in Minneapolis, Mn. He will start the states first North American Old Catholic Church congregation.

Read an April 22, 2007 New York Times review of the popular novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid that studies the constructed relationship between Islam and fundamentalism by Americans after 9/11.

Peter A. Huff is chairman of the department of religious studies at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Huff teaches courses on global fundamentalism and is the author of What Are They Saying About Fundamentalisms? (Paulist Press, 2008).

Camille Lewis is chairwoman of the department of rhetoric and public address at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., and author of Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism.