Presence

A Life in Transition is the blog of a member of the Toronto Orthodox community who is in the process of transitioning gender from male to female. What I find interesting is how this person has involved not only his close friends, but the entire community, in the process, by starting a blog (which, until recently, had comments). I'm told that this person is also very open in discussing the issue with friends.

Along the way, I read about an interesting teshuva from the Tzitz Eliezer (discussed in an RJJ journal article from Fall 99 by R. Alfred Cohen entitled Tumtum and Androgynous, who says that ones gender is defined by ones genitalia (but in the context of where ones gender was ambiguous or unknown to begin with). My understanding is that almost all other poskim disagree with his position.