Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88
Soloway’s late-in-life transition was the basis for her children’s TV show exploring LGBTQ Jewish identity
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Culture At a seder by and for trans Jews, guests define liberation for themselves
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Stein’s memoir about growing up transgender in the Hasidic community, 'Becoming Eve,' is being adapted into a new play
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Opinion My ancestors left their homelands to escape antisemitism. Will my son have to leave the U.S. because he’s trans?
Trump's executive orders scapegoating transgender people echo past persecutions of Jews
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Culture Is the Trump administration’s website censorship the internet age version of Nazi book burning?
After Trump ordered an end to "gender ideology" in the US, information on trans people began to disappear
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Fast Forward ‘I’m not waiting until they come to round us up’: Transgender Jews and their families search for safety as Trump takes aim at their rights
One transgender Jew described the situation as “like 1930s Germany all over again.”
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Theater Ex-hasidic, trans and brutally honest, Lili Rosen invites you to her ‘Second Circumcision’
The one-woman show is a funny, poignant account of the performer’s transition
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Culture A bar mitzvah for a transgender man in the shul where he once had a bat mitzvah
Same bimah, same Torah portion — but this time, a ‘gender-affirming’ ceremony
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