Religious of Reform Judaism About the RAC Advocacy Activism Programs Congre About Gender Fluidit Transgender Justice http: //archive.vn/KC@F3 RABBI DAVID MEYER 9/20/2018 In fact, and strikingly, our J

Religious
of Reform Judaism
About the RAC Advocacy Activism Programs Congre
About Gender Fluidit
Transgender Justice
http: //archive.vn/KC@F3
RABBI DAVID MEYER 9/20/2018
In fact, and strikingly, our Jewish legal tradition identifies no fewer than six distinct “genders”,
certainly assuming as normative the male and female, but including as well designations which we
now refer to as “intersex” identities. To use the Hebrew terms: the androgynos, one who has both
male and female characteristics, the tumtum, one whose biology is unclear, the aylonit, who
identified as female at birth, but at puberty, develops male characteristics, and the saris, who
appears as male at birth, but later takes on more typically female biology. would suggest, based
on the study of these legal texts that the Jewish understanding of gender is neither binary nor even a
grid into which every person must be forced to fit. Rather, we see gender diversity as a spectrum,
truly a rainbow of possibilities for reflecting the Image of God.
our Jewish legal tradition identifies
по fewer than six distinct