Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Meaning of Gender
Joy Layton is the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. She says her deepest self was something that could only be manifested superficially in the most superficial way, literally putting on makeup and taking it off because she had to be able to remove any trace of female identity. "I needed to create a functional visible, not even functional, I needed a visible female self first"
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