Court rejects appeal to stop cremation of trans woman

24 November 2015, 9:30 pm

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The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the family of May Peleg, a transgender woman who committed suicide last week, paving the way for her body to be cremated.

A court ruled last week that her body could be cremated in accordance with her will, after her family, which is ultra-Orthodox, said it wanted to give her a Jewish burial.

“Since there is no legal impediment to carrying out the free will of Peleg in cremating her body, her will should be honored and her body should be transferred to the Alei Shalechet [crematorium] — despite her family’s opposition,” judge Neal Hendel writes in the decision, according to Ynet.