Trans gay jew

On another episode of I’m not a convert but will speak for converts because for some reason I believe I understand their identity more than they do themselves. Also I will just make shit up as a go along.

G-d searching “Jewish converts” through Twitter is and will always be a minefield of bad and incredibly uneducated opinions.

Anyways I am a Jew & Jewish you know why? Because... they are literally the same thing

When you see someone being so divisive and going out of their way to "other" Jews who are different from them, it really says something about what that person has internalized about ALL Jews, including themself.

Also, it says something about that person's ignorance, willful or through lack of education. A study of sociology OR of Jewish texts and theology/halacha about converts would not support those views.

But that's not of my business.

When it comes to lgbt Jewish issues, the experts will always be lgbt Jewish people!

White LGBT goyim want to derail discussions of the holocaust to talk about how much LGBT people were affected too and you’re a homophobe for not being inclusive enough or making things comfortable enough for them while talking about your peoples oppression, but they don’t want the intergenerational trauma from the holocaust most Jewish people live with or make any spaces for LGBT Jews

White LGBT goyim want Anne Frank to be their bicon but can’t fathom what it’s like to be a Jewish kid and to be compared to her in the nastiest ways and later learn about her and realize she wasn’t a bad person, they were just insulting you for being Jewish. LGBT goyim need a reason to care about a murdered Jewish girl because antisemitism isn’t enough. They want to see themselves in her, they can’t fathom what it’s like to have no choice to

White LGBT goyim love LGBT history but only when it’s through a white, goyische lense. They want Oscar Wilde but don’t want Magnus Hirschfeld, Faygele Ben Miriam, Leslie Feinberg

White LGBT goyim love Jews except for when we are open about it, except for when we’re proud, except for when we’re religious, except for when we see our Jewishness and our gayness and our transness as inseparable, except for when we identify with Jewish cultural genders, except for when we want to be visibly Jewish at pride parades and marches, except for when we refuse to assimilate. Except for when we’re Jewish. Except for when we call out their antisemitism

which seems to me to be a conflation of race and ethnicity in ways that are conflicting and uncomfortable and directly play into the ways joc are othered and treated in jewish community. like being jewish is about your blood and your looks? i know japanese jewish people, black jewish people, indian jewish people, who were Born Jewish but don’t. look like that? don’t get racialized the way ashkenazi jews do? sephardi/mizrahi jews don’t get racialized the same!

it seems a bit of a tightrope to walk. and ethnicity isn’t about race, there are jews of all races. including white jews who are not converts and this conversation feels like yet another way that jewish people Not Of Color try to distance themselves from that fact. im not sure how to hold these things at once, that conversion makes you Fully Jewish but Not Fully Jewish, but it seems like people are trying to reconcile it by saying that ethnicity is now fully a race thing and therefore conversion doesn’t let you in?

which… tbh the whole conversation feels like a way for jewish people who are not jews of color to distance jews of color from the community, while simultaneously distancing themselves from any proximity to whiteness they might have.

To be perfectly honest, I don’t feel qualified to answer either of these questions.

To the first one I’d say it probably depends on what Jewish community you belong to and what level of observance/identity you want to keep. I know that I definitely have trans jewish mutuals on here although I’m currently blanking on who to tag, so definitely seek out some of those people here on tumblr!

1) As a Reform Jew with a gay rabbi and a very welcoming community, it only makes a difference if my opinion is specifically asked for because I’m trans. Nobody’s been even remotely negative.

2) I don’t have an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia, but I do sometimes forget to eat if I’m not on a schedule, which is disordered eating– and I’ve been told I should not fast. Something as simple as that counts as being, if not ill, unsuited to fasting. If it could even possibly interact with an eating disorder, please use your best judgement when it comes to fasting! If you don’t want to take advice from a stranger on the internet– which is totally fair– please talk to a rabbi or at least a doctor before you try to fast in any capacity.

Yeah ok... and what do you think your Christian counterparts we’re thinking when they were doing trying to convert us? Hmm.

Your idea that we MUST adhere to your point of view on science, religious, and spiritual beliefs and their interaction with the world mirrors the same behavior of Christians. It shows we have no reason to trust or respect your voice in conversations revolving religion and religious relations.

While it’s important for everyone to acknowledge the facts that science has blessed us with, we are not required by any means to abandon our religion or spiritual beliefs because you feel we should look at the world a certain way and not look at the world in a way that you feel disrespects the scientific method.

You also have no right to come into our community, whether online or in real, and demand we debate or convert because you feel like we should.

Beis Shammai say that one must eat both an appetizer and an entree; Beis Hillel say an appetizer or an entree. Others say that one fulfills his obligation even with won ton soup alone. The halacha follows the others.

There is a machlokes as to whether one can fulfill his obligation by eating fortune cookies. Our practice is to be machmir in this matter.

The mitzvah is to eat Chinese food on Christmas Day. If one ate Chinese food on Christmas Eve, he has not fulfilled his obligation until he eats from his leftovers the next day. The leftovers need not be reheated but one who does so is praiseworthy.

If one ate sushi, Indian or Thai, he has fulfilled his obligation after the fact (b’dieved). If one ate pizza, burgers or Mexican, he has not fulfilled his obligation. Rabbi Meir says that one fulfills his obligation with Mexican because it is exotic. B’shaas had’chak, a shaila must be asked.