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Leaving My Ultra-Orthodox Home and Finding My Trans Self: Part Two
Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...
Leaving My Ultra-Orthodox Home and Finding My Trans Self: Part One
Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...
Fighting To Be Invisible
I often wonder what my life would look like were I a few years younger. Given how quickly the world ...
International Transgender Day of Visibility: A Jewish Perspective
For a while, just as Transgender Day of Remembrance was getting established as an observance, a competing movement emerged. That ...
Tools to Observe Transgender Day of Remembrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), memorializes trans individuals who have died because of anti-transgender discrimination and victimization. It occurs annually ...
The Power of Being Seen
Laura Thor spoke these words at Transgender Day of Remembrance last year, at a service held at Jefferson Unitarian Church, ...
I AM: Trans People Speak
As October moves on into November, we move from LGBT Month into Trans Awareness Month, culminating in Transgender Day of Remembrance. ...
My Jewish Transgender Journey
We know that this post is much longer than our usual posts. We do hope you’ll stick with it to ...
Dear Abby: My Parent is Transgender
Even as voices from the transgender community slowly become part of the ongoing conversation about inclusion, there’s one set of ...
Why I Care About Trans Day of Remembrance as a (“Cisgender”) Gay Man
I’m a white gay Jewish man. Up until a few years ago, I didn’t even know what “cisgender” meant.Three weeks ...