Confusion. Simply confusion.
Hello Rabbi Michi.
When the month of Av begins, there is truly less joy. And it’s only because 9th of Av is my birthday and the anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Adin, the late Rabbi.
On Shabbat I had a pretty long discussion with the fanatical side of my family about gender identity and transgenderism. Of course, they said that normalizing it is forbidden, and that me giving it a hand is giving a hand to Satan and the SMB. And it is forbidden to normalize LGBT people at all because it affects small children and LGBT people should be beaten up, and every transgender person is the biggest offender because he shows children that it can be done. And if there is someone like that in the family, then we will ostracize him and more violent calls. Of course, religion is perfect and all the sages and biblical figures are ministering angels who did not sin, etc.
I said, wait a minute, is this God, is this the God I work for? Is this it?
There is no chance, and there is no chance in the world that there are people who justify violence in his name.
In short, after they found out I was trans and even on hormones, they decided to stop seeing me.
My question is – is there a way to reach a compromise with them? Something to convince? Maybe in a religious sense?
Or just continue on my righteous path.
This is a difficult question, so sorry for asking.
The questioner.
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Hello Rabbi Michai!
It's me again. Regarding preventing the birth of children - I can have children from my sperm (I froze it) although it's about a decade but it's still better than nothing. I don't know how it will affect the halakhic level. When I tried to talk to them about what those poor souls who created the SM are going through - I was answered without saying anything. I think you answered this in your column and it's possible that I saw something like this with Rabbi Katz. But I don't see a discussion with them going anywhere. For example, when I tried to talk about the sins of King David (the Shabbat Bible explicitly states that he did evil in the eyes of God, and also in some of the commentaries) then I was answered straight away that King David is the Holy of Holies and of course he raises the dead, sits as a fourth cherub in a chariot and drives a tank chariot.
My question is basically whether freezing sperm changes anything halakhic, and as for the rest I don't think there is anything to be done. Thank you very much Rabbi Michai, really.
I don't think freezing sperm solves the prohibition of castration. But I'm not sure. It's an interesting question to think about.
Sorry for the intrusion, but in my opinion this is simply a matter of medicine - gender dysphoria is a medical condition that is highly likely to lead to life-threatening conditions (high suicide rates, etc.), and if the way to cure this life-threatening disease is through castration, why not castration to cure cancer, for example.
If that's the case then maybe you're right.
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