transgender
Making it Personal: How the JCRC Advocates for Trans Inclusion
Embedded in our communal and organizational DNA is the belief that all people come before the government with an equal ...
Q&A with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, the White House’s Primary LGBT Liaison
Keshet recently spoke with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan. Raffi, a Jewish woman, is the first openly transgender member of staff at the White House. ...
Leaving My Ultra-Orthodox Home and Finding My Trans Self: Part Two
Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...
Leaving My Ultra-Orthodox Home and Finding My Trans Self: Part One
Abby Stein grew up in an insular, Hasidic community in Brooklyn. When she realized she wanted a different kind of ...
Fighting To Be Invisible
I often wonder what my life would look like were I a few years younger. Given how quickly the world ...
A Life Cut Short: Remembering May Peleg-Friedman
May Peleg-Friedman, the Jerusalem Open House’s first trans chairperson and former owner of Jerusalem’s only queer nightclub “Mikveh” took her ...
Reform and Transgender & Non-Gender Conforming Jews
The history of transgender and non-gender conforming people in the Reform Movement goes back further than we might initially realize. ...
Back to School: Supporting your Transgender Child
New schools, classmates, and teachers can cause anxiety as the school year is getting ready to start. As parents, we ...
Supporting the Journey of Your Transgender Child
Last week, PBS Frontline aired a powerful, thoughtful and educational documentary, Growing up Trans. The families and the children who shared ...
The Road to Pride: Supporting My Transgender Daughter
My newly turned 12-year-old child walks into the room trembling and crying.This is going to be huge. I wondered if ...