Transgender Jews seek wider acceptance, understanding

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Transgender Jews seek wider acceptance, understanding
by Ron Kaplan
Chronicle Correspondent

http://thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/16589737/article-Transgender-Jews-seek-wider-acceptance--understanding-?instance=home_news_1st_left

Transgender and transsexual Jews face significant challenges in gaining acceptance from the Jewish community and in navigating through life in general. 

Wheeling, W.Va., native and author Noach Dzmura illustrated these challenges in a thought-provoking discussion sponsored by the Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh and Bet Tikvah, Saturday, Nov. 19.

Dzmura, the communications coordinator at Congregation Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, Calif., underwent a sex-change operation to become a male.