Danielle Solzman
By Danielle Solzman
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Life How Being A Transgender Woman Hurts My Job Prospects
Even in Pride Month, it sometimes feels as though one needs to be a superhero to get a job after coming out as a transgender woman. As I was set to come out at work as transgender, I received some bad news. Shortly after coming home from work on that late Friday afternoon in September,…
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Life An Orthodox Trans Woman from Kentucky Finds Acceptance (and a Shul) in Chicago
My reality as I knew it ended in early November 2015. Even though I was assigned male at birth, I came to terms with things I started to realize in middle school, if not elementary school: I’m a woman. Accepting all of this wasn’t easy and when you live in a very small Orthodox community…
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