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People celebrate the new Transgender Law on the steps of the parliament in Madrid, Spain, December 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul White)
December 22, 2022, 10:01 pm
Spain, Scotland pass laws promoting trans rights, lower age for gender change
Bills makes it easier and faster for those aged 16 and over to change their gender on official documentation; opponents express fears over future of single-sex spaces
By AFP
Talleen Abu Hanna arrives at the Neve Ilan studio outside Jerusalem on December 18, 2016. for the opening of Season 8 of the Israeli version of the Big Brother reality show. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
January 13, 2019, 1:58 pm
Israeli Arab transgender star reconciles with estranged father on reality TV set
Talleen Abu Hana from Nazareth won first Israeli transgender beauty pageant and starred on Israeli version of ‘Big Brother’
By ToI Staff
Ta’alin Abu Hanna, shortly after winning the Miss Trans Israel pageant on May 27, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 19, 2016, 11:39 pm
Israeli comes second in Miss Transsexual final
All the contestants are ‘winners,’ says Ta’alin Abu Hanna from Nazareth, who was beaten to the title by Brazilian rival
By Daniel BOSQUE
The Iranian national women's soccer team before a match. (screen capture: YouTube/Elm Owen)
September 30, 2015, 3:36 pm
Iran female soccer team accused of manning up
Eight players on national team, which plays in hijab and full body covering, revealed to be members of wrong gender
By Stuart Winer
Golden Globes best actor Jeffrey Tambor as Maura in 'Transparent.' (courtesy Amazon Studios)
January 13, 2015, 4:04 pm
‘Transparent’ goes where no wo/man has gone before
Winner of two Golden Globes, the proudly Jewish Amazon Studios series grapples with a transexual parent, and says ‘ew’ to Holocaust engagement rings
By Caroline Lagnado
A drag queen performs onstage during a gay rally at the Hebrew University's Givat Ram stadium in Jerusalem, November 10, 2006. (photo credit: Michal Fattal / Flash90)
May 14, 2014, 4:27 pm
Israel allows sex changes for 18-year-olds
New regulations lower minimum age from 21; reduces the time candidates must live in new gender identity
By JTA
Iranians make there way through Tehran's old main bazaar in July (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
From the WebOctober 8, 2013, 9:26 pm
Fatwa allows sex changes in Iran, but stigma remains
Islamic Republic even subsidizes sex-reassignment surgeries, Al-Monitor reports
A drag queen performs at a Jerusalem party, June 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash)
June 4, 2013, 1:06 pm
MK pushes gender-neutral ID cards
Bill seeks to ease discomfort for those whose sexual identity differs from their biological sex
By Gavriel Fiske
In her new book, Joy Ladin writes of how the Torah aided her journey of sexual identification. (The University of Wisconsin Press/JTA)
May 1, 2012, 5:33 pm
‘Like Jacob, I wasn’t the boy my parents meant to bless’
For Jewish transsexual Yeshiva University teacher Joy Ladin, there is no easy path to being a daughter
By Joy Ladin
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