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This clip illustrates a serious problem of true identity - which is illustrated by the following article where a woman becomes surgically transformed into a man - but then she uses her female biology to have a child.
This is an era of gender revolutions, and the Jewish community is racing to keep up. Enter
Yuval Topper. Topper, who comes from an Orthodox family, was born
female, underwent a sex reassignment surgery to become male, discovered
that he’s gay, married a gay man, and in 2011 became the first Israeli
transgender man to conceive and give birth to a baby. [...]
“There’s a growing number of trans-male Jews who are getting pregnant
and having babies. Finding ways to sanctify and welcome men who are
having babies into the community, which is something previous
generations of Jews could never dream of, is increasingly becoming part
of modern Jewish life,” Kukla tells the Times of Israel.[...]
“People tend to like having things in nice, tidy boxes, of men do this,
and women do that, and challenging these notions can create anxieties,”
explains Kukla. “To make room for transgender Jews round the table, we
have to expand some of our notions around gender and sexuality. For
starters, normalizing the fact that people can have different
life-cycles and choices, ones that don’t necessarily conform to the
binary reality of male/female, mother/father… to my understanding,
gender is a lot more complex than that.” [...]
Topper’s decision to get pregnant was one of simple practicality: In
line with the rabbinical courts, the State of Israel does not officially
allow same-sex couples to adopt. Only one parent may adopt, then the
other may file for secondary custody, and all this with the caveat that
adoption be recognized as being within “the child’s best interest,” an
often discriminatory clause. It was much easier to simply stop taking
testosterone for a while. [...]
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