Joy Ladin's Door of Life   By: Melanie Weiss
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/keshet/2012/08/01/joy-ladins-door-of-life/



You're also extremely generous in observing how your employer, the Orthodox Stern College, deals with your transition, attributing to the institution and most of the individuals there the kindest interpretations for the way they react, and clearly bearing little grudge for some of the indignities you experienced — like the negotiations, with lawyers and everything, about which bathrooms you could use. I'm curious what the response from within the Jewish community has been.

Well, in regards to Stern, let me say this — when I applied for promotion to full professor, and this was after my transition, I got it, with a great deal of support from the administration. I think that says something very powerful.
My experience of how cultural change happens is that sometimes, there's a real revolution, but more often people, out of the public eye, just begin to change their behaviors, and finally the official line will catch up to where people are.