Minneapolis St. Paul Understanding Gender Identity
October 16, 2022 @ 11:00AM — 1:00PM Central Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Gender identity is a very important and timely topic that begs for more discussion and understanding. How versed are you? Do you know the various terms and concepts? Maybe this is a process happening in your own family. Join Hadassah Minneapolis St. Paul for a most significant program/panel discussion central to our extended communities.
Panel Moderator
Dr. Marla Eisenberg (she/her) is a professor at the University of Minnesota. Much of her work focuses on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, and questioning young people. She will introduce concepts of sex and gender, gender identity and expression, and pronoun usage, and discuss some of the ways in which families, schools, health care providers, and public policy can support or harm transgender and gender diverse people.
Panelist
Rabbi Michael Latz is a former Lead Rabbi of Shir Tikvah Congregation, Co-Chair of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, and a leader in the work for marriage equality. Rabbi Latz will speak to the experience of raising a transgender child.
Panelist
Jessica Wicks transitioned in 1990. In 1950, when she was three, Jessica told her mother she was a girl. Jessica notes: “I remember when I began hormones. Despite the mood swings, nothing ever felt so right. Early on was learning how to be the authentic me, unlearning a lifetime of a performance as a guy. Of course I met with a lot of opposition, loss of family and friends. ‘To thine own self be true'; I found that elusive happiness in life at long last.”
Ezra Kaner-Roth is an eighteen-year-old transitioning from female to male. He will share with us how he realized his true identity, along with the challenges and joys of being a teenager going through transition.