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transgender
Alexis Arquette, Jewish transgender actress and advocate, dies at 47
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2016
Transgender actress Alexis Arquette, who worked to raise awareness about the transgender community, has died.
Summer camps open bunks to transgender Jews
Jewish Journal
June 23, 2016
Bathrooms accessible for transgender children and staff are old news at Camp JRF, the Reconstructionist movement’s summer camp in South Sterling, Pennsylvania.
Israel’s first transgender army officer celebrates pride at embassy event
Jewish Journal
June 21, 2016
When Shachar was 2 years old, she asked her parents to keep her hair short. When she was 5, she asked them to throw out every skirt in her closet.
I’m a transgender Jewish man who had a baby — here’s why I went public with my story
Jewish Journal
March 8, 2016
Two weeks ago, I heard a podcast in which two Jewish women named Ronna and Beverly misgendered me repeatedly and made fun of my story.
Israel’s first transgender beauty pageant slated for May
Jewish Journal
March 3, 2016
Israel will be holding its first beauty pageant for transgender women.
Jewish Trans Man Gives Birth and Embraces Life as a Single ‘Abba’
Jewish Journal
January 22, 2016
When Rafi Daugherty went to the hospital for the birth of his first child, he posted a sign on the delivery room door.
Why transgender inclusion is a Jewish imperative
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2015
Just when the LGBT community thinks it has taken another step toward full equality and inclusion, along come the Dennis Pragers of the world to remind us how far we still have to go.
Dennis Prager has a point
David Seidenberg
December 10, 2015
What Dennis Prager says in his most recent column is right – liberal Jews, rabbis and laypeople, responded to his piece about the Torah status of transgender Jews with a lot of passion and rhetoric, but without answering his claim.
Letters to the Editor: Responses to Dennis Prager’s column on ‘the Torah and the transgendered’
Jewish Journal
December 8, 2015
When earlier last month Mr. Prager assailed against non-orthodox Judaism as not going deep enough with Torah, I championed his cause.
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