transgender

The new spate of anti-trans legislation restricting access to medical care and curtailing the ability to play gender-appropriate sports is devastating not only for trans folks but also for all Jews, as it strikes a blow at a core Jewish value: Do not cause distress by referring to a person’s past identity.

An affirmation for Transgender Day of Visibility

A Keshet board member sets out to have respectful conversations in conservative communities.

What you need to know to be welcoming and inclusive.

An Orthodox rabbi advocates for trans inclusion this Sukkot

There it sat and it had sat for a very long time. We felt exhausted, vulnerable, and full of anxiety. ...

I went shopping for a new tallit (prayer shawl) at two competing Boston Judaica shops last week. In both stores I ...

The week before I wrote this poem I was having a discussion with my mother about how I presented my gender ...

In August, I’m going to drive across the country interviewing trans adults who live in rural areas, towns, and small ...

Leavened versus unleavened; inside versus outside; Jew versus non-Jew; life versus death. Passover is a festival of absolute binary distinctions that we ritually link together in order to affirm our identity as the people God brought out of Egypt and to pass that identity on to our children. This is the Torah's equivalent of “Jewish Identity for Dummies.”