The Attorney General has forbidden the Ministry of Interior to change the sex of a transgender man who gave birth, back to female on ID cards, despite the Interior Ministry’s objection claiming that only a woman can give birth. The Ministry of the Interior has no authority to change the registration of a person’s gender, […]
The Israeli Population and Migration Authority changed transgender father’s sex on ID card back to female without his consent, following the birth of his son. Now the state acknowledges that both of the newborn parents are fathers, but refuses to give a birth certificates that indicates it. Yonatan and Daniel with attorney Daniella Yaakobi A […]
The Interior Ministry of Israel refused to complete the registration of a baby born to a couple (one of whom is a transgender man) – and forced the man who carried the baby to change his registered sex from male to female. In 2009 Yonatan Marton, a transgender man, changed his gender from female to […]
In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance (11/20) we look back at prominent stories of transgender people from Israel that were published in the media. Lia Bar-Lev shared her story of becoming a woman, and the difficulties she was facing during the process: “I’m not afraid to look inward, to invest in my inner self […]
Transgender Daniel Brosh decided to call out Transgender visibility at this year’s Gay Pride in Tel Aviv in an original way and has produced a lip-sync music video starring only female-to-male transgenders. Tommy SimnTov, Dylan Sahar, Yonatan Marton, Mikey Alroy, Santiago Benjamin, Tal Schantcer and Daniel Brosh, some of them familiar from the documentary ‘The […]
At the mobile clinic he runs in Tel Aviv, Yonatan Marton tells about transgender women’s particularly bad experiences with prostitution. The mobile unit of the Health Ministry’s Levinsky Clinic parks at 9 P.M. at the prostitution hub at Tel Aviv’s old central bus station. It’s a Sunday night, and sex workers and drug addicts, both men […]