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Good News For Transgender Jews

Started by Butterfly, April 11, 2009, 06:52:39 AM

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Good News For Transgender Jews
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 11, 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/good-news-for-transgender-jews.html


Unlike Christianity and Islam, who have fundamentalist elements growing more hostile every day to transgender people, there's good news for transgender Jews, be they part of the Reform or Conservative movements.

In 2007 the Union For Reform Judaism in a groundbreaking move to recognize the experiences of transgender Jews, published several prayers for sanctifying the sex-change process.
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