Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Rebecca Flores ISBN Number 978-1798873021

ISBN Number 978-1798873021

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Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Rebecca Flores ISBN Number 978-1798873021***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award Transgender Non Fiction While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist and LGBT movements in the Jewish world, Jews who identify with the "T" now sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing