Transgender

Queer? Trans? Female? Here’s How To Find Tefillin

When buying tefillin at a traditional Judaica stores becomes uncomfortable for women and LGBTQ+ Jews, these resources are here to help.

Jews, Talking To Our Families About Violence Against Transgender People Is Our Obligation

As fears of anti-Semitism rise, we should remember a radically vulnerable group in our midst: transgender people.

In A Conservative Israeli Town, She Came Out As Trans. This Documentary Tracks Her Journey.

It’s “the happiest story that can be.”

For Centuries, Jewish Tradition Has Recognized Trans People

Trump would like us to believe that this strictly binary view of sex is natural, scientific, traditional, and universal.

He is wrong.

The Anti-Trans Nuremberg Laws Are Upon Us

I will stay true and public as a queer person and a transgender person exactly as I have done as a Jew.

Op-ed Defending Scarlett Johansson Transgender Casting Decision Is Yanked

“Johansson’s identity off the screen is irrelevant to the identities she plays on the screen,” Greenbaum wrote. “That’s what she’s paid for.”

Backlash After Scarlett Johansson Cast As Trans Character

This is an easy problem for Scarlett Johansson to fix

How Hasidic Sages Supported Transgender People — 200 Years Ago

Abby Stein, a transgender woman who grew up Hasidic, says Hasidic texts about Isaac and Rebecca discuss transgender identity.

Controversy As Scarlett Johansson Cast As A Transgender Man

The movie, ‘Rub and Tug,’ may not be aiming for nuance.

First Openly Transgender Teen Elected To USY Board

“I want there to be a system where if someone identifies as trans, they are able to room with the gender that they identify with.”