Abby Stein

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Stein at the University of California, Berkeley in April 2016

Abby Stein (born 1991 in New York City ) is an American transgender activist and blogger . She is the first self-confessed trans woman who grew up in a Hasidic community and made this known to the media. She is a direct descendant of the founder of Hasidic Judaism , Baal Shem Tov . In 2015 she founded the first nationwide help group for trans people with a Jewish-Orthodox background.

Early life and education

Stein was born in 1991 in Williamsburg , Brooklyn , New York City . She is the sixth child of thirteen from a family of rabbis. She grew up speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and attended a Jewish day school for boys. Then she attended the Viznitz yeshiva in Kiamesha Lake in Upstate New York , where she also received a rabbinical degree ( semicha ) in 2011 . In 2012 she left the Hasidic community. In 2014 she began studying at Columbia University School of General Studies.

Coming out

Stein will read from her book "Becoming Eve" during a lecture in December 2019 at the California Institute of Integral Studies

In November 2015, Stein announced on her blog that she was a transgender woman and began her transition . In an interview with a Swiss newspaper, she said: "Even as a 4-year-old boy I felt that I was in the wrong body".

She has appeared in some major media including the New York Times , New York Post , CNN , New York Magazine , NBC . She has also appeared on television such as CNN and Fox News .

Web links

See also

Portal: Transgender, transsexuality and gender diversity  - overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of transgender, transsexuality and gender diversity

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noah Gadebusch, Benyamin Reich: The Rebbe in a miniskirt. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . July 13, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Judy Bolton-Fasman: Introducing Abby Stone. In: Forward. November 20, 2015. Quote: “ Abby, who is 24, was born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn to a notable Hasidic family that boasts a long lineage of rabbis. ”
  3. ↑ Summer Luk: Interview: Abby Stein talks about being a transgender woman from a Hasidic Jewish community. glaad . April 27, 2016. Quote: “ attended Yeshiva, completing a rabbinical degree in 2011 ”.
  4. ↑ Jennifer Zimmermann: From Rabbi to Woman: "For a long time I thought I was crazy". In: Watson . June 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ Trans woman who also left Hasidism blogs about double transition.
  6. ↑ I left Hasidism to become a woman
  7. ↑ Meet the former ultra-Orthodox rabbi now living as a woman
  8. ^ I Grew Up Hasidic and Trans. Here's How I Found a New Community.
  9. ↑ OutFront: Trans Woman Spreads LGBTQ Awareness in Hasidic Community
  10. ↑ Transitioning to Freedom , We're with Abby Stein, an American transgender activist and the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic Jewish community.
  11. ↑ Free To Be Me ( Memento from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Abby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American transgender activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States