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Mephistopheles and the Androgyne;: Studies in religious myth and symbol

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I betray my nerdiness by revealing the first book I read on transgenderism was by a dead professor of Philosophy or Religion famous only among other profs and writers. My kind of guy. Translated from French, Eliade writes in the middle chapter of this short book describing the important role of the mythic androgyne. God can only be expressed fully as a paradoxical coincidence of opposites. If God were expressed wholly as a human, that human would be both entirely female and entirely male simultaneously. Thus Jesus, at least post-resurrection, must have been an androgyne (not merely intersex) as was the pre-Woman Adam. He traces a number of Biblical and non-canonical early Christian sources with variations on this theme, showing this idea is already built by God into our brains. I don't know that Eliade ever remarked about modern transgenderism - he liked history too much - but I am sure he would have loved genderqueer and intergender. Personally, this has become the foundation of my thinking on Transgenderism.