Transparent’ shift in views of transgender Jews

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Transparent' shift in views of transgender Jews

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/76591/transparent-shift-in-views-of-transgender-jews

Jweekly/by avishay artsy , jta   01/14/2016

"The prevalence of transgender issues in pop culture seems to have reached a pinnacle in 2015.

Caitlyn — née Bruce — Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair. The movie "Tangerine," which stars transgender actors, took film critics by storm. Director Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl," currently in theaters, tells the story of one of the first sex-reassignment surgeries. And the second season of Amazon's Emmy Award-winning "Transparent," about a Jewish family coming to terms with their father's announcment that he is  a woman, was released to raves in December."