Q&A: Including a Transgender Person in a Prayer Quorum
Including a Transgender Person in a Prayer Quorum
Question
Do you think there is room to permit it, if for example everyone recognizes him as a male, and he lives in a liberal country that identifies him as entirely male both externally and in terms of personality?
Answer
This is actually an easy question, because in my view women can also be included. As for other male roles, that is a more difficult question.
Discussion on Answer
See column 598: https://mikyab.net/posts/83142/
So are you saying that someone from the LGBTQ community can lead a religious lifestyle (like, say, Uri Sherki)? Or is there some inherent problem with accepting them into religion in the first place and allowing this? Because it’s not like a religious person who keeps most of the commandments and sins here and there, since there it’s recognized as a sin; this is accepting an entire population that conducts itself in a way that contradicts the religion.
I don’t know what “accepting them into religion” means. Nobody is permitting anything. The question is what our attitude toward them should be. In my view: normal human treatment.
Just a small correction: not (Rabbi) Uri Sherki, but his son Yair Sherki.
Do you have an article or an explanation on the subject? It sounds like a very novel view.