Becoming Eve is about my journey from ultra-orthodox cleric to transgender woman by author Abby Stein.
The story of a radical Orthodox child who was born to be a Jewish leader and became a woman instead.
Abby Stein grew up in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lived by the laws and customs of 18th-century Eastern Europe, spoke only Yiddish and Hebrew, and was alienated from modern life. grand.
Stein was born the first son into a dynastic rabbinic family, poised to become the leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews.
Abby had felt certain as a child that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while searching for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to pirated secular faith tests. She orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox masculinity to mainstream femininity – a radical choice that forced her to leave her homeland, her family, and her way of life.
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Becoming Eve
- My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
