California Jewish School Celebrates 8th Grader’s Gender Transition with Ceremony

[Tom] Sosnik’s Jewish ritualized coming out as transgender in front of classmates, teachers and family at the Tehiyah Day School in El Cerrito, California, is believed to be the first time that a Jewish day school has sanctioned and performed such a ceremony.

…The 40-minute ceremony …[which] included various blessings and readings from traditional Jewish sources about change and new beginnings, had the feel of a bar mitzvah crossed with a baby naming.

California Jewish school marks 8th grader’s gender transition | The Times of Israel

Awww, that’s so nice.

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