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Transgender Jews Now Out of Closet, Seeking Communal Recognition

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December 31, 2008, 05:40:56 PM
Transgender Jews Now Out of Closet, Seeking Communal Recognition
The Jewish Daily
By Rebecca Spence
Wed. Dec 31, 2008


http://www.forward.com/articles/14854/


Los Angeles — When Elliot Kukla, a Reform rabbi, came out as transgender six months before his ordination in 2006, he never imagined how openly the Jewish community would be addressing transgender issues just three years later. This month, he is poised to address a West Coast regional conference of Reform rabbis on the subject, and even the elderly Jews that he works with in the Bay Area are largely accepting of his identity.

"I'm so amazed at the old ladies who will turn to their friends and say, 'Did you meet the nice, young transgender rabbi?'" Kukla said. "Some of that is San Francisco, but that conversation would never have happened a few years ago."
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