Balancing on the Mechitzah: Transgender in Jewish Community

http://www.yescoalitionphilly.org/news/20100602

Please join us Wednesday evening at 7pm for the east coast launch of the new anthology, Balancing on the Mechitzah: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura, an activist for transgender inclusion in the Bay Area Jewish communities and a consultant for Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Mr. Dzmura will introduce and read selections from the text to illustrate the celebrations and challenges of transgender Jewish life from all points on the gender spectrum, including work by

    * a strictly observant Orthodox transsexual woman,
    * a liberal Reform masculine-spectrum genderqueer rabbi,
    * a secular FTM psychologist, and
    * an MTF academic and ritualist who teaches at an Orthodox university.