Gender and the Syntax of Being: Joy Ladin on Identity and Transition

[Shana A]

Gender and the Syntax of Being: Joy Ladin on Identity and Transition
June 20, 2013

http://www.onbeing.org/program/gender-and-the-syntax-of-being-joy-ladin-on-identity-and-transition/5646

Gender defines us from the moment we're born. But how is that related to the lifelong work of being at home in ourselves? For as far back as Joy Ladin can remember, her body didn't match her soul. We explore this question through her story of transition from male to female — in an orthodox Jewish world.