Comments on: identity http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: little light http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-919 little light Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:06:15 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-919 Thank you for this, Nexy. This is just such a basic, fundamental truth of solidarity, and you've put it in such perfectly concrete terms--I can't imagine anyone not reading this and finally understanding, unless they're trying very hard not to. Hits close to home, it does. Thank you for this, Nexy. This is just such a basic, fundamental truth of solidarity, and you’ve put it in such perfectly concrete terms–I can’t imagine anyone not reading this and finally understanding, unless they’re trying very hard not to.
Hits close to home, it does.

]]> By: Lisa Harney http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-905 Lisa Harney Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:43:41 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-905 I just watched that again the other day. Anyway, I misremembered the order in which I was responding to your posts, so I was in fact coming from the past. I just watched that again the other day.

Anyway, I misremembered the order in which I was responding to your posts, so I was in fact coming from the past.

]]> By: nexy http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-898 nexy Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:02:02 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-898 all of a sudden, i have that huey lewis song "back in time", from the movie "back to the future", running through my head :) all of a sudden, i have that huey lewis song “back in time”, from the movie “back to the future”, running through my head :)

]]> By: Lisa Harney http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-896 Lisa Harney Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:27:56 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-896 I'm reading backwards, so, when I say "I could kiss you again" It's because I'm coming from the future. :) I’m reading backwards, so, when I say “I could kiss you again” It’s because I’m coming from the future. :)

]]> By: Rory http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-884 Rory Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:46:43 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-884 Really? That's very surprising to me. I'm not sure how I'd feel if someone were to ask me for that. And there isn't anything that I could show them. Hmm. Really? That’s very surprising to me. I’m not sure how I’d feel if someone were to ask me for that. And there isn’t anything that I could show them. Hmm.

]]> By: nexy http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-883 nexy Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:32:20 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-883 proof is rarely asked for as most men stay in the same congregation from birth into manhood. those who do move would definitely provide references to the rabbi of the new congregation - i can remember providing my history when my ex and i moved to a new town, and joined the local temple. whether or not they actually checked my references, i don't know. proof is rarely asked for as most men stay in the same congregation from birth into manhood. those who do move would definitely provide references to the rabbi of the new congregation - i can remember providing my history when my ex and i moved to a new town, and joined the local temple. whether or not they actually checked my references, i don’t know.

]]> By: Rory http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-879 Rory Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:50:37 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-879 "from what i understand, the bris ritual includes the circumcision." Well, yeah; that's why the mother was so freaked out! "there’s several passages in the torah that specifically exclude men who have *any* body anomaly from serving god in the temple. and i have to imagine that the lack of a proper bris is one of them. but then again, it’s been a while since i studied my torah, so i could be wrong." I don't know about that. I've never studied the Torah, so I couldn't say. But I suspect that wouldn't be true in all denominations. Anyway, if the man is circumcised, there wouldn't be any physical anomaly. If you're born Jewish, I believe they take all of that at face value. I've never heard of anyone being asked to provide documentary proof of a Bris and/or a Bar Mitzvah. And I certainly haven't heard of anyone asked to drop trou! It might be worth the price of admission just to see their faces after getting a gander at an FTM's 'equipment'. “from what i understand, the bris ritual includes the circumcision.”

Well, yeah; that’s why the mother was so freaked out!

“there’s several passages in the torah that specifically exclude men who have *any* body anomaly from serving god in the temple. and i have to imagine that the lack of a proper bris is one of them. but then again, it’s been a while since i studied my torah, so i could be wrong.”

I don’t know about that. I’ve never studied the Torah, so I couldn’t say. But I suspect that wouldn’t be true in all denominations. Anyway, if the man is circumcised, there wouldn’t be any physical anomaly. If you’re born Jewish, I believe they take all of that at face value. I’ve never heard of anyone being asked to provide documentary proof of a Bris and/or a Bar Mitzvah. And I certainly haven’t heard of anyone asked to drop trou! It might be worth the price of admission just to see their faces after getting a gander at an FTM’s ‘equipment’.

]]> By: nexy http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-878 nexy Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:43:46 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-878 from what i understand, the bris ritual includes the circumcision. the jews are pretty anal when it comes to ritual. there's several passages in the torah that specifically exclude men who have *any* body anomaly from serving god in the temple. and i have to imagine that the lack of a proper bris is one of them. but then again, it's been a while since i studied my torah, so i could be wrong. from what i understand, the bris ritual includes the circumcision. the jews are pretty anal when it comes to ritual. there’s several passages in the torah that specifically exclude men who have *any* body anomaly from serving god in the temple. and i have to imagine that the lack of a proper bris is one of them. but then again, it’s been a while since i studied my torah, so i could be wrong.

]]> By: Rory http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-877 Rory Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:43:27 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-877 > When I was in college, I had a part-time job working for the Jewish student group on campus. I took a phone call from an hysterical mother. She had a baby, and before they went home from the hospital, she was asked if she wanted the baby circumsized. She said yes since they were Jewish. Later, she was contacted about having a Bris, and she said it wasn't necessary since it had already been done. She was told that without the Bris, it didn't count. She asked, "oh my God, what are they going to do to my baby?!". She was assured that no, they wouldn't be performing a second circumsision. >

When I was in college, I had a part-time job working for the Jewish student group on campus. I took a phone call from an hysterical mother. She had a baby, and before they went home from the hospital, she was asked if she wanted the baby circumsized. She said yes since they were Jewish. Later, she was contacted about having a Bris, and she said it wasn’t necessary since it had already been done. She was told that without the Bris, it didn’t count. She asked, “oh my God, what are they going to do to my baby?!”.

She was assured that no, they wouldn’t be performing a second circumsision.

]]> By: nexy http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-876 nexy Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:18:32 +0000 http://transadvocate.com/nexy/2008/01/30/identity/#comment-876 probably. probably.

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