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I mentions the body being a temple created by a perfect god, and forbids tattooed people from being given burial rights. I don't agree, but it's not hard to find gender conformity as a virtue, and most (not all) surgery as a sin.
Right, and therein lays the rub: it's open to interpretation, and things will get interpreted differently by different people in different places and times.
Most medieval Christians believed that transgender people (not how they would have been labeled at that time, but they frequently didn't have a specific word for such people, so we'll make do) were created by God as the gender they identify as BUT were changed by the devil to the opposite gender in the womb. Gender transition was therefore putting things back they way that God intended and was fighting against the devil.
Anti trans Christians today believe it's the other way around.
And this is why evidence based policy making is so important for a successful government.
While I agree, I think there may be a limit to a morally-flexible any government can be. It's entirely possible that the goals and evidence point the government in a direction that some find immoral.
Heck, there's voters in the U.S. that would consider instructing someone on how to do a D&C an immoral act. But, the evidence is that D&Cs save lives and the government should (at least) help fund their instruction.
Separately, but also religion-related, what is "evidence"? It wouldn't surprise me to hear some people claiming their faith not only is evidence, but is also better evidence than the observations of flawed, human "scientists".