How Should Christians Respond to Transgender People?

I've written a lot about how Christians need to love and accept LGBT people, but unfortunately I've been forced to ignore the T in the acronym: transgender. Though it's embarrassing to admit, I, like most evangelical Christians, don't know a lot about transgender people. So I decided to do some reading.

Here's what I found. Gender identity and gender dysphoria can be a complex, multi-faceted subject. Transgender people are, above all, people. And people are intrinsically complex. No two people have the exact same story. So to those Christians who harshly criticize the transgender rights movement, I'd like to pose a question: Have you sought to understand the struggles of transgender people, or did you simply reject their concerns outright as contrary to "common sense"?

Here are a couple Christian perspectives that I found both informative and convincing. Lord, grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

The False Gospel of Gender Binaries
by Rachel Held Evans (author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood)

Transgender issues are more complicated than some Christians portray
by Jonathan Merritt (Religion News Service columnist)

A Christian perspective on transgender people
by Justin Lee (founder of the Gay Christian Network)

Let Kids Be Kids Instead of Sexualized Little Adults
by Amy Julia Becker (writer for Christianity Today)

Bruce Jenner & the Transgender Question
video with Mike Schmitz (Catholic priest)