[Avodah] Transgendering and Halachah

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 08:09:14AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: From a little bit of noodling around the internet it seems that the TE's  
: psak involved a case where the person's external organs were ambiguous...

The first teshuvah, the one I cited (vol 10, shaar 25, pereq 26, os 6),
was a hypothetical case of a transexual who wouldn't give a get. REW
pasqened none was needed, the qiddushin had no man-woman couple on which
to be chal anymore.

You're describing a second teshuvah, written by a doctor who read the
first one.

...
: Medicine has changed a lot, the culture has changed, a lot of things have  
: changed.  He may have written halachic opinions more recently than that,  
: I'd be interested to see more on that, but it seems 1971 was his last word on 
: the subject.

I'd be interested to see statistics that the reality actually has changed
in a way that would make the first pesaq. As I said, your assumptions
aren't enough for overturning a pesaq. (The plural of "anecdote" isn't
"data".) Particularly when speaking about ruling out a safeiq piquach
nefesh.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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