Monday, March 16, 2009
Israel's Transgender Community
Posted by Monica Roberts at 4:30 AM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/03/israels-transgender-community.html

But until May 1998, the word transgender and Israel was something that you didn't think was synonymous. Then a transwoman named Sharon Cohen won the Eurovision song contest that launched the career of Swedish pop group ABBA and became an international transgender icon known as Dana International.

Her groundbreaking win let the world in on the little known fact that there are transgender people in Israel. While Dana's better known to the world transgender community, Nora Greenberg is better known to Israeli lawmakers and the nation's GLBT community.