Q&A: A transgender student in the Religious State school in Givat Shmuel: parents and MK Waldiger demonstrated demanding the dismissal of the head of the Religious State Education system – a question?
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A transgender student in the Religious State school in Givat Shmuel: parents and MK Waldiger demonstrated demanding the dismissal of the head of the Religious State Education system – a question?
Question
Hello Rabbi Michi,
Would the Hardal community also demonstrate against a child suffering from Down syndrome who is integrated into a normative system? What’s the difference?
Best regards,
Answer
There is no connection. Down syndrome is an illness, and transgenderism is an ideology.
Discussion on Answer
The demonstration is useful in order to protest the introduction of agendas into the school. You can agree or disagree, but there is not the slightest connection to attitudes toward illnesses and sick people.
That is a consideration that has arguments on both sides. But you made a comparison to someone who is ill, and there is no basis at all for that comparison.
What does the child have to do with the story?
What good does the demonstration do?