I am utterly blown away by this appearing in Cross Currents. (You can read it and tell me all the ways it falls short, or you can read it and realize what an enormous sea change is reflected in this discussion, of these issues, this way, for this audience. I prefer the latter.)
https://twitter.com/YisraelMotzen/status/1441927584611069953
(For those not familiar, Cross Currents is a publication of and for the intellectual/open haredi world. If you go back and look at R' Shmuel Kaminetzky (with Arthur Goldberg!) in Hakira on "same-sex attraction" a decade ago and then this, it's light-years. Parsecs.)
I cannot give a big enough yasher koach to Rabbi @YisraelMotzen for stepping up and saying these things, in this community, about LGBTQ members of our community and their families. There is neck-sticking-out here, and there will be backlash. Thank you for braving it.
(No, I don't agree with everything he said or how he said it, and no, I don't think it's necessary or valuable to detail that here. We can recognize that there are different communities, in different places on these issues, hearing different messages and landing different places.
We can appreciate someone who's doing the heavy lifting of sharing an important message in a way that feels true to him, that's [hopefully] efshar lishmoa, and that is really a big step in its context, without feeling the need to explain why Someone Is Wrong on the Internet.)
A message of trans acceptance in Cross Currents, even if it's not exactly what you would have said or how you would have said it? I, for one, am very grateful.
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