A transgender woman left her teaching position at an Orthodox Jewish New York City day school this week, after an uproar over her identity.
The teacher, has faced widespread harassment in the past week over the issue and agreed on Friday to leave her position at the Magen David Yeshivah in Brooklyn.
“It’s sad to see that some people want to derail our lives,” she said. “We’re questioning whether or not our entire lives are ruined or not. It’s tough.”
“I’m an Orthodox Jewish woman who happens to be transgender, just like there are Orthodox Jewish women out there who happen to have red hair,” she said. “Before this whole incident, it wasn’t even something that I thought a lot about. I don’t consider this a giant part of my identity and nobody else should.”
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There is something really "off" here. This man, lady person [safe term] PURPOSELY misleads a yeshiva into thinking that she was a born woman knowing FULL WELL that if she would be truthful and forthright they would not hire her b/c her action of having surgery to change her sex is against Jewish law for numerous reasons. Then they find out, she gets fired - and plays the victim.
She adds that this isn't something she really thought about. She doesn't think much about the fact that she changed her gender?????????????? ODDDDDDDDD. Or, much much much more likely, false. Sex change surgery is like having red hair??????? "Hello, I have a shidduch for your son. Wonderful girl. Great middos. She has red hair, green eyes, studied accounting and was born a boy". Not a big deal.
Another strange thing is that according to the article she lives a totally Charedi lifestyle in a frum community [a suburb of the Dominican Republic in upper Manhattan]. In the meantime, she is married to a [born, bonafide] man and given that she was born male this is a serious problem, to say the least. This is besides the numerous issurim she transgressed with the surgery. [She was photographed with her husband - black hat and all - and baby making one wonder how a person without a uterus gave birth to a baby. I assume that either the baby was adopted or she performed a miracle]. But she never really thought much about this.
One lesson: There is a lot of information missing here - like most of what is written in the media.
