CNN brings the story of Micha Yehudi, a transgender religious man who serves in the Israeli amy and marched on Thursday at the Jerusalem Pride parade Two years ago, Micha Yehudi hit rock bottom. The 25-year-old Israeli soldier was working 18-hour days and couldn’t sleep at night. Instead he watched videos of women going through […]
Abby Stein is an openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic Jewish community. Abby publicly came out in a blog post on November 11, 2015. Just five years ago, 25-year-old Abby Stein was an ultra-Orthodox rabbi named Yisrael. Today, she’s an openly transgender woman. And she’s ready to share her extraordinary story with the world. […]
Transgender rights. Same-sex marriage. Federal protections against discrimination. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, some of the hard won rights and protections that the LGBTQ community have gained in recent years are once again in the national spotlight. President-elect Trump has appointed several members to top government posts that have supported so-called religious freedom […]
When it comes to transgender people’s rights, Americans have considered the countless difficulties — from religious to legal and beyond — and focused on a commonplace issue: Which bathroom should such individuals use? The bathroom, and more specifically the public restroom, is where the rights of transgender people come into close proximity with the privacy […]
CNN’s Carol Costello picked up on the issue of religious right groups trying to kill anti-bullying programs in schools because, they say, anti-bullying programs are secret programs to recruit kids into “the gay lifestyle.” Carol did an incredible job shutting down the spokesman for the hate group (The AFA representative, Mr. Fischer) during her show. […]