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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Requiring Brit Mikvah for female trans converts?
Description: A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Adina Lewittes
ABOUT THE EVENT:
How does Jewish law, a system based on such binaries as muttar (permitted) and assur (prohibited) and hayav (obligated) and patur (exempt), inform our contemporary understanding of gender which is increasingly shaped by fluidity and in some cases hybridity? In this particular case, would a trans woman who has not had gender confirmation surgery be required to undergo a ritual circumcision as part of her conversion process? Does the mitzvah of brit milah apply only to those whose gender is male or to all those whose anatomy is male...