The Second Transition

The struggles and transitions of a girl, assigned male at birth, raised in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic family in New York City. Follow my "Second Transition" after successfully transitioning out of the UO community, it is time to fulfill the second part, escape from prison that is my body, and live as the woman I always was. Learn about the struggles and adventures, the pain and the happiness of a two fold transition.

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

An LGBTisch In the Heart of Orthodoxy: A Reflection On the Past, A Wish For the Future

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It was a (a)typical Friday Night in Washington Heights ; the hub of traditional, establishment, Modern Orthodoxy , and home to its flagship...
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

My FB Response to Columbia Queer Alliance (CQA)

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This is what I wrote on Facebook as a reply to Columbia Queer Alliance 's post supporting " Apartheid  Divest" (I am intentio...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I Have Daddy and Mommy Issues: Yet I Am Finally Proud With It. A Trans Woman Coming To Terms With Rejection

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“Mom, our family is breaking up because I’m a transsexual, and I can’t live as a man anymore.” Years crowded into silence between us, yea...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Reflections on a Jewish-Orthodox LGBT+ Retreat: There Is Hope! (Eshel National Retreat 2016)

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A few weeks ago, I did an interview with one of my favorite blogs, Friendly Atheist . One of the questions the interviewer asked, was ho...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

That Night I Cried With the Trans Rabbi From Brooklyn

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“She weeps, yea, she weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheek; she has no comforter among all her lovers; all her friends have be...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

On Trans Visibility In the (Ultra)Orthodox World - Remembering Our Fallen

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Trigger Warning: Suicide, LGBT discrimination. “ May Peleg Friedman , the Jerusalem Open House’s first transgender Chairperson, put...
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