[Avodah] [Areivim] if they asked, it would have been assur

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, January 30, 2007 12:19 pm, R Zev Sero wrote:
:> : The Tzitz Eliezer paskens that the person is now a woman, and if she
:> : hadn't given her wife a get earlier, she wouldn't need one now,
:> : because she's no longer an eshet ish.
>
:> And before surgery the person is an androgynus, or male?
:
: He was male.  She is now female.  The fact that he was a fertile man
: and she is now an infertile woman doesn't matter....

I had asked about the state of the person after hormones but before surgery.
Would the TE still hold that gender is determined by current external
large-scale anatomy, or would he hold that the person is still male, since
andogynus is itself a safeiq?

I also wonder if the TE would hold the gender changed for all matters, or if
this was a means of searching lehatir agunah, and he would pasqen lechumrah
WRT mitzvos asei shehazman gerama?


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