MSOpinion Israel’s transgender Jews struggle in Orthodox circles “Across Israel, 40 percent of the transgender community has attempted suicide, according to a 2020 health ministry report”
“Across Israel, 40 percent of the transgender community has attempted suicide, according to a 2020 health ministry report”Yael Rashlin holds on to her Jewish practices, but as a transgender woman in Israel, she struggles to find acceptance in her Orthodox community — a feeling exacerbated by the country’s new right-wing government.
But unlike other Orthodox women, she recently decided to stop covering her hair as a way of distancing herself from the community. Israel has the most progressive LGBTQ legislation in the Middle East and over the past decade there has been more openness about same-sex relationships, even among religious people.
“The price to pay has become too heavy to manage this conflict between being an LGBTQ couple and part of the Orthodox community,” said Hadar Rashlin, 30.“There’s a fear among rabbinical authorities saying that transgender exist, that it’s not a sickness or a fad,” she said.Across Israel, 40 percent of the transgender community has attempted suicide, according to a 2020 health ministry report.
The situation is particularly worrying for Benny Lau, an Orthodox rabbi who has for years supported gay Jews and has sometimes encountered transgender people.“When you carry the role of a rabbi, of a leader, you must take care of the life of every individual,” he continued, stressing that the most important duty in Jewish law is to protect life.
The hostility of most rabbis towards transgender identities is part of their broader battle against modernity, said Lau, rather than upholding Jewish law which “is subject to interpretation and in which one can find many justifications” for different identities.Lau’s liberal approach is antithetical to positions held by some newly elected Israeli lawmakers, notably those within the government which took office in December.
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