Wrestling with G-d and humanity: LGBTness and Jewish Tradition at Hunter College

Panel Discussion on how the LGBTQ community fits in Jewish tradition, with Rabbi Avram Mlotek (basehillel.org/dwtn), Jayson Littman (www.myhebro.com/), and Abby C. Stein - at Hunter Hillel (www.hunterhillel.org/). May 10, 2017.
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The LGBT Center: gaycenter.org/home
Trans Health centers - APICHA: apicha.org/ Callen-Lorde: callen-lorde.org/
Jewish LGBT groups - Keshet: www.keshetonline.org/ Eshel: www.eshelonline.org/ JQY: jqyouth.org/ Nehirim: nehirim.org Footsteps: footstepsorg.org/
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[@hannahmich7342]

I just join your group. I too belong LGBT and sometimes "I" intersex community. I've only seen a couple of your videos and I would like to learn about how the Jewish community as it relates to the transgender members. I was born Intersex with strong transgender desires.
Be well

[@Rolando_Cueva]

If you’re intersex and get hormones, you’re not necessarily trans. You never were technically male or female. It’s your choice to identify with either of them!

[@hannahmich7342]

@@Rolando_Cueva I have not taken hormones yet because of health issues related to my intersex in the form of cancer. I developed stage three testicular / ovarian type cancer where one of my testis developed as a ovotestis that became malignant. My DNA is male but during early gestation my body did not fully develop as a male. I did grow up to be seen as a male but my sex organs remained under developed but did work to some extent. One of my testis did develop to about half of normal size and I even got married. It has been difficult living as a male as I suffer with gender dysphoria. Spouse has always known this about me and we work around it very well. When you love someone you simply make it work. We have managed to make it work for over forty years.
Keep in mind we had no knowledge of what transgender was nor what intersex was when we fell in love. Over the years I worked full time and never asked anyone for help of any kind yet at the same time I’ve had a life time of surgeries with twenty six to date. Of which six or so are related to my intersex issues.
So maybe you can gain a sense of why I often see myself as being trans from my perspective. My body is sort of male and yet mentally I really see myself in the female role. I have a Very clear and sound image of who and what I am as a human being.
Doctors at the Mayo are perplexed as now my one remaining undeveloped testis doesn’t produce hardly any testosterone now and yet that doesn’t effect my bone structure in anyway. In addition my levels of natural estrogen seem to be very high. It is assumed that this comes form testosterone that is being converted to a form of estrogen. My understanding the chemistry is lacking in this area of human biology is a bit lacking.
I hope this put things into perspective for you. Gender in a human can be very hard to define at times. I just have learned to respect myself for who I am and was lucky enough to find someone who still loves me for the person I am.
What more can I ask for.