Fellipe do Vale’s book Gender as Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds (Baker Academic, 2023) offers a timely and sophisticated theology of gender from an international evangelical perspective. While his work has several merits, recurring throughout it are do Vale’s suggestions of transgender-affirming accommodations to his proposal. This paper will argue from the presenter’s own international evangelical perspective that these accommodations are inconsistent with major components of do Vale’s proposal, components which favor the identity-reconfiguring spiritual formation of transgender persons over straightforward affirmation of their preferred identity. Following a synopsis and general commendation of do Vale’s proposal, the paper analyzes the logical, epistemological, ethical, and Christological inconsistencies in his handling of transgenderism and concludes that it displays non sequiturs, a lack of distinction between innocent ignorance and deliberate falsification, an uneven application of an Augustinian account of love, and a docetic tendency. Next, pivoting in a more constructive direction, the paper builds upon do Vale’s critical appropriation of the gender theology of Anglican theologian Sarah Coakley and his appreciation for Methodist theologians Beth Felker Jones and William J. Abraham to set forth a positive approach to identity-reconfiguring spiritual formation. Specifically, the paper dissents from do Vale’s downplaying of the trinitarian dynamic in Coakley’s model of prayer while seconding his replacement of generic desire with love and a genderless eschatology with a gendered final state in her theology. The paper then goes beyond do Vale by recommending the implementation of Coakley’s model of prayer along with a scientifically-informed Augustinian-Wesleyan model of spiritual formation in service to the reconfiguring of gender identity. Such applications hold promise for ministry not only to transgender persons in the West but also bakla/bayut persons in the Philippines.