How This Hasidic Rabbi Became A Trans Woman Activist | NowThis
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- This Hasidic rabbi left her family, community, and religion behind to become a transgender activist.
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Raised in the Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Abby Stein went from being a Hasidic rabbi to a trans activist.
“To be honest, I didn’t know the difference between boys and girls physically because it was never discussed in our community, she explained.
At 15, Abby’s family sent her to study to become a rabbi in the Catskill mountains of New York. While she knew something we wrong, she suppressed her identity, and never openly strayed from her private teachings. She stayed until she was 20, at which point she was already married with son. The birth made her once again question what she was feeling about her identity and why the prayers and practices in her community weren’t giving her solace.
She began learning about the trans community secretly on the Internet - which is generally condemned in the Hasidic community. After doing research for three months, she eventually decided to tell her wife how she felt, and to leave her community. She was then accepted into Columbia University to get an education, but was still living as a man.
After years of struggling with her identity, she finally started hormone therapy in 2015 to start her transition process. Today, she is a blogger, speaker, and activist within the trans community.
“For people who are struggling themselves, first all know that we are out there,” she explained. “There’s so many people out there who are going to unconditionally accept you and support you. You can and will succeed.”
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She worked at my camp for a year and I didn’t know until like a year or two later her incredible story. I’m so glad I got to know her, she was really just so kind and joyful.
Deuteronomio 22:5?
So sad that she was rejected by her parents. As a mother, I don't think there is anything that would make me reject my children. My kids are my greatest accomplishment and my greatest joy.
That's religion for you.
bridogg154 I don’t think she thought about that but. Are comparing transgender people with killers?
bridogg154 also it’s not mental illness, gender dysphoria is determined by the anatomy of the brain, it’s like saying Down syndrome is a mental illness, well it’s not a mental illness
Trish Pomeroy it is wrong that because she is transgender her community forced her to stop seeing her child
Trish Pomeroy it is selfish for a religious community to exclude lgbt people
When they accidentally take their own medicine...😂😂
So true aside from denieing Jesus they reject usa form of being Exceptible and tolerance as if they are not the ones influancing
Hormones really are powerful chemicals. She’s very feminine. I hope her life gets better and better.
Snodge Kat lmao, she had feminization surgery silly!
The media is addicted to stories like this
The media covers whatever brings more viewership and engagement. People like you commenting here is exactly why stories like this are covered. Personally though I'm really addicted to Abby she is awesome.
Abby Stien,
I am so sorry you did not receive the love and support you so richly deserve from your family. You are brave and beautiful. Keep speaking your truth. How do I get in touch with you. I would like to invite you to my shul. The prayer services and minyian are very traditional. However, the people, rabbi by the name of Lisa Malik are very excepting of transgender women and men. We would love to have you visit. You are beautiful.
"the media is addicted to stories of people's lives getting better. i am very smart."
It is? I spend a lot of time on line for many reasons. I have never seen a story like this. Methinks you are a bit insecure.
@@bg5469 better common the media is a perverted propaganda of corporations and global elite for slavery and global domination thats is pure evil and satanic george soros must be playing part of this with his ngos and funded programs of homosexuals wake up these global elites are crushing christian values for this perverted satanic stuff i ain buy this. God made me man im happy about it stick to who you are because otherwise youre livig. A lie
No one laments that she has no visitation with the child?
She didn't speak English until adulthood ... sounds fluent to me
WeR1channel *she
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Teolita LP
They only speak Jiddish in this community. It's an isolate community.
Yes, she didn't speak English until adulthood, because in the ultra-orthodox Jewish communities, the men study Hebrew and speak only Yiddish. They focus on study in Hebrew and Yiddish. Women in these communities are taught more English so that they can accomplish day-to-day tasks more easily.
+Yehoshua Cirt Yes, People get so triggered with Shapiro lol
You really are a lovely woman - I wish you a happy life!!!
She's loving, sweet, and honest.
Not a woman.
Woman 😮
My question is what happened to the woman that had your child with and do you have a relationship with that child right now and why would you want to be a fake woman because if you get surgery you can never have kids again and at the end of this video he said he is in a relationship with an amazon woman. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017 to find me.
no mention of her son and how she feels about leaving him behind in that community.
+learning Dude do you seriously think her son should be hanging around a transexual. Her son has a mother that is looking after him without that community and as long as the son is comfortable there he can be there.
boliussa why shouldn't her son be hanging around with her? she's his parent, and can provide love, support, and guidance; her gender is irrelevant. otoh, his birth mother's in a cult that isolates itself from the world and raises their kids to be functionally illiterate. depending on the stability of her situation, in the long run the son may be better off living with his birth father than his birth mother.
+I'm it's really not necessarily a bad life in the cult, and if he grows up with a transexual they won't let him in that easily. There are some significant problems outside the cult, as well as within the cult.. Outside the cult you have problems with marriage, hypergamy, less chance for a family life. Within the cult you have that but you don't get to be creative or enjoy some other benefits of modern times.
boliussa, "if he grows up with a transexual they won't let him in that easily" ... I think it's reasonable to not have one of your criteria in raising a kid be "but will a cult let him in easily?".
"There are some significant problems outside the cult, as well as within the cult" ... yes, but they are far from equivalent. The problems inside a cult are due to not having freedom of choice. The problems outside a cult are the usual ones that come from freedom of choice. Yes, there's a price to pay for having freedom: your child should be allowed to decide whether they will give up freedom to live in a padded box, rather than being raised in a box and brainwashed and emotionally manipulated into thinking that that box represents true freedom and knowing that if they leave that box, they will lose contact with everyone they know and love (which is what cults do).
+looking They are often not brainwashed to think the padded box is freedom. And they don't necessarily stay in the box because of being brainwashed into this/that or threatened with this/that.. There are significant problems outside the box (that yes, come from freedom of choice), like marriages not lasting or even not even happening at all, and so on. A person could have a beautiful family life within the box, that they wouldn't have outside the box. I was never part of such a restricted group, but I was circumcised, and that does give me an option of joining some jewish community if I so choose.. There will be people that would live happier more fulfilled lives, within that box, that they would never have outside the box. I've seen a friend go religious and get married and he has a wonderful wife and children, a really good life, that he might not have had outside of that. Fortunately he still had education opportunities because he was in a modern orthodox community. So i'm just saying one should bear in mind that many will find a better life within the box.. If the child was a genius and this transexual was the next steve jobs, and had a partner and pretty much had everything to give the child the most wonderful secure upbringing, then maybe it'd be better outside of the box, but otherwise, who knows. If only we could judge each person individually and know if they'd be better off outside the box. But we can't, and we should bear in mind that for some they'll have a far more fulfilled life with REAL things in the box, like a wonderful husband or wife for life, that they might not have outside the box.
Look at her eyes ... she has a very deep and loving soul !! 💞💞🖒👏
She's loving and sweet. She's unlike any of the women that I've dealt with from the Williamsburg Hasidic community. I worked in that community for nearly two years. It was awful.
LOL "The dangers of the internet?" Go to the Marcy and Division Brooklyn library. You'll see many of these hasidic men using the computers to get on the internet.
Really?
there are different types of hasidic groups
There are many different Hasidic subgroups. Some are opposed to the internet in all forms, some aren't. Don't make the mistake of thinking all believe the same things.
99% for business, guaranteed.
Fascinating story. I cannot imagine what gender dysphoria must feel like, and how hard that would be, particularly for someone raised in an orthodox environment in which they know they will undoubtedly be rejected by the people closest to them.
Yeah. Its a fascinating subject and one very close to home for a lot of people. For me, i’m at a point in my life where i have to choose between my own family and who i am. Things are getting better but its still hard. I love my family. But the only way i can continue to be loved by them is to be someone I’m not.
Sorry for the negativity. I hope youre having a good week, whoever you are, man 😂
Abby is an amazing person. She has overcome a great deal. Surely she carries a sadness about her family's rejection.
But she moves on through sheer will and happiness at the world she has found. And, her intelligence and infectious joy
make her very special. This is a story worthy of a major film. Why a film? It would open many closed minds to a story
worth telling. It might also reveal a hypocrisy within a religious community that is overdue. .
He will find that in the end, he has not solved anything. I fear for his future.
I would have tried to get out before I had kids.
>left wife for another "woman"
>left kid for himself
sad
I am in the same community and I always have someone to talk and ask about anything so don't talk garbage it's a loving caring and helping community
No one cares, k eye k
איך קענען זען די positive פונקטן פון ביידע אַ רעליגיעז לעבן און קהל און דעם טראַנסגענדער ווייַבלעך לעבעדיק איר אמת לעבן (וואָס מיינט איר אמת אידענטיטעט). עס מוזן זיין שווער פֿאַר איר צו קלייַבן צו לאָזן איר משפּחה און קהל
Chaim, It's a loving and caring community for its own people just as long as no one rocks the boat. Did the community treat Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg with love for exposing over 100 pedophiles within the community? No!.
@@lulolancy you are so right about that and let's not forget weberman.He abused girls for yrs and when one of his victims came forward her and her family were ostracized but the Williamsburg community helped weberman by raising hugh sums.Whenever things like this are brought up they always says that we are so kind because we do such kind acts like helping the poor or the sick,but these acts of kindness can't negate these despicable acts and especially the cruelty shown to the victims and of course the indifference of future victims by not putting them in prison where they belong.They seem to have it backwards because it's the pedophiles who should be shunned from their society not the innocent victims.
@@co9819 @ Chana, still to this day, the Satmar community of Williamsburg--believe that Weberman did nothing wrong. I was a school bus driver there. I was seen as a huge threat. This past summer, one of the school bus rabbi's got mad because I brought up his name. He said, "Weberman was my neighbor. He was a good man. The girl is a liar!" I laughed. Many within the community thought they had the power to try and dehumanize me. They found out how wrong they were. I have so much to expose about my time there. a novel and a graphic one is in the works. Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum Place is at the corner of Keap and Lee Avenue. It’s literally as close to the women’s Mikva as his face was to the Bedikah cloths that he inspected. Outsiders make nothing of the, 9-feet x 6-feet police house, that stands on the triangle. But to thousands of his supporters, it serves as a reminder to never seek justice from outside authorities. The triangle is in dire need of repair-and so does the school bus system within the Satmar community. it must be humiliating for Hasidic women to have their sanitary pads inspected by rabbis. The awareness of this practice, has given me the strength to take back my power from dishonest car mechanics and learn to inspect my own break-pads. I say, if Israel doesn’t allow U.N. inspectors to inspect their ready for blood wars nuclear program, then Hasidic women should take the same stance and not allow rabbis to examine their Maxi’s.
He’s such a liar, 5:42, they have stores and shops, and restaurants in the ultra orthodox communities. It’s the same basic thing.
Im so glad she found Jewish safe spaces I'm guessing in Reform and Conservative which accept LGBTQ+ and are very welcoming I have LGBTQ friends in both those movements I also hope she can be in her child life as well in some way.
I feel so bad for her wife and family, considering she's a conservative religious woman, being divorced must be hard for her. This person should be taking care of his child and wife.
Wow. Shocking but great story. I wish you with all my heart that you would be happy.
5:12 that wave made me smile so much, I don't know why
:)
I am a young trans man in an unsupportive Jewish home going through a very hard time right now and this woman’s amazing story inspires me so much, baruch hashem your doing good now and living as your true self and I wish you hatzlochah
I am so happy for you that you are getting to live your truth. You are an inspiration to people of all faiths. I wish you a lifetime of happiness. Shalom!
I can't respect someone so selfish as to abandon his kids for something like this
I agree 100%
Shut the fuck up. What she was supposed to stay and kill herself. Thats what it leads to. If you don't know. Don't speak on her. Then she needed to have a stable place before asking for custody
CanisLupus1987 she didn’t abandon her son, she visits him frequently
The comments are full of transphobia. How sad.
Cybeliandiamonds I know, it’s making me really angry. Abby’s an amazing woman and she deserves to be accepted as who she is.
good.
He was never a rabbi just a regular man
henryuk123 she*
Alexander The Great he**
@Eitan Prian - Ben Zion she*
HE. Your unscientific delusions don’t change biology. HE used HIS dick, a product of HIS Y chromosome, to ejaculate into HIS wife, & HE fathered a child. HE then selfishly abandoned his family to live out HIS life as a freak in a dress.
+henryuk IT and yeah the youtube titler is an idiot describing it as a rabbi if they never said anything about them being a rabbi.
UTTER & COMPLETE NAUSEA
This needs to become a biopic!
Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Feel bad for the kid he abandoned
This makes so much sense!
What a beautiful, powerful woman! So proud.
Interesting thumbs up
Not a rabbi. I know her from childhood. Not judging her decision but her consistent lying about the community is awful
How can you be sure that she wasn't a rabbi? You knew her?
She’s not old, if she just started speaking English, she wouldn’t articulate this well. This story is shady!
Wowie!Not an easy journey very brave to break away from the community and be yourself!
She's so bright and brave! 💖
Wow! Wow! Good for you! I’m sure this took such courage for you to not only to leave your orthodox faith but, to transition. Wishing you a lifetime of happiness!
It says"beauty is a lie. what is important is inner spirituality and faith "
My issue is that this person thinks being a woman is achieved through makeup and clothes
It isn't
Seagull B It begs the question, what makes a woman? Is what this person is dealing with feeling the need to be a woman, or something entirely different? Great words.
Brainwashed by leftists. looked pretty masculine and proud before being exposed to secular nihilistic propaganda
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@@CanisLupus1987 but what drove them to seek the information?
I think that she’s expressing herself in a way that makes her comfortable. I don’t find these comments on Kim Kardashian red carpet looks videos so they’re just leveraging the whole concept of abolishing gender on the people who are most disenfranchised under the pretense of getting past it. Second, as my trans friend told me, he has to act extra masculine not because that’s what makes him a man, but because if someone calls him ma’am, that will ruin his day, so he’s using a social language to communicate an inner reality.
Abby is such a strong woman♥️🙏🌹
All I'm interested in is how did he get his hair back? If that that's the key to getting a full head of hair I'm going purse shopping tomorrow!
Poor children.
Mazel Tov Abby! You're so courageous and a beautiful woman. Carry on your journey and enjoy your new life. To you!
You can always return to God
Never give up
She really did convert!
This person is beautiful.
A real "nebach case"
I feel so bad for his parents
MAXI why.?
+lulolancey Antisemite
@@lulolancy Jews have always survived because of male rigid structure and I am sorry to say this, if females were in charge then Jews would long be lost like matriarchal Native Americans who are now totally mixed, and few who became patriarchal due to Christianity and survived today in their reservations, but still beautiful natives are threatened by liberalism and preference of many of their women to non-native men due to media indoctrination with black/white males and less of natives. Statistics show that natives will die out completely by the end of century. Jews can never be destroyed not by hitler or anyone else in history except by people like this rabbi
Maxi only wants attention in comments. even don’t reply
@@matsutatsu0 you're saying this as if you know me
Good for her. She is a truly courageous woman.
parrotles him*
this man not woman was never a rabbi
She is so inspiring! And so brave! 🌺✨💐🌈
Good for her!
Correction good for him. If you're born with male parts you are a male, no unicorns or fairy tales.
You are the best you have great things you have done and will do keep up the great work
She's in a relationship with an amazing women?
Nazif Bracic I understand where you are coming from with your comment, they don’t necessary change so they can be in a relationship with certain genders they change because that’s how they feel most comfortable in their own skin.
Some women are lesbians. Shocker.
i wish more and more jewish men become like this.
I'm so happy for you. I believe some people are sometime born in the wrong body, Siamese twin who share one organ together. But to me in her case, it could be the hormones or the brain .we have to compassionate sometimes instead of being mean and intolerant.
Very proud of you; stay strong!
sick
why do so many trans women have relationships with other women?
Because they're lesbians
Because women can be lesbians?
HRS Darwish they’re not woman, they have an X and Y chromosome
N. Willy48 we’re not arguing about sex, we’re arguing about gender. When was the last time you were attracted to someone’s chromosomes? We’re attracted to someone’s perceptible features, not molecular biology.
Angela Backer because they can be gay/lesbian?
Congratulations!!! I really admired you and God bless you!!
so brave! wow. all the best to her!
You go girl
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Wait, was she born and raised in USA or Israel? If she was born and raised in USA, how can she not know that much English? Is the Hasidic Jewish community THAT closed off from the rest of USA? Especially in New York City?
God bless you Abby with His inclusive unconditional all embracing love and understanding and wisdom. God loves everyone. Amen.
Not a woman. Not A Rabbi.
She's so beautiful, I can't even 😍
From one extreme to another.
What a very brave person,,salute you
Very courageous! Thank you for your story
Very sad too
Honey you can not justify what you are, you are good as you are.
It's too bad this person engages so much in magical thinking. It will continue to ruin his life unless he emerges from it.
Crazy
girl at 6:14 looks like Melissa or Malky from the NBC interview, who s with me?
This guy was never a Rabbi, it is sad to see this guy like this,
Good going Abby
So, from crazy to just a normal person.
That's good 👍-up.
Makes me want to puke.
She's very pretty.
Columbia NICE!!!
Poor his wife and kid.also his fam...such a shame!!!!
At least she was honest many are abusing there wife bc they purely hate being married to a woman
Good for her! Well done
Ridiculous.
+hav
That describes your attitude perfectly.
Thanks - an unprompted unqualified unsolicited opinion about something that isn't your business nor do you know enough to justify commenting on. Congratulations. You're SUCH A MAN you have to tell other people what being a man is. Really proves your masculinity. If you "have problems" with others gender identity & sexuality - all that reveals is that you QUITE CLEARLY have unresolved inadequacies, insecurities & issues concerning your own. Good Luck getting the help that you need. I wish many children to be named after you - this year!
If somebody thinks they were born in the wrong body, we have to tell them we can`t do anything about it. Science cannot help with that. This is too extreme a solution, it might relieve the gender dysphoria, but doctors aren`t supposed to change a person`s life this much in order to achieve that. There has to be another way.
I’m completely confused, she felt like a woman but she is attracted to women…? You would think that if she felt like a woman she’d be attracted to men…
Hashem Yerachem.
Hashem Yevarech!
A schmekkle in the tuckus oh vay
1:44 🤔hmm
That's some receding hairline for a woman...
best comment here. Finally someone else noticing
I've seen worse...
It is so strange to see someone who dresses like a woman and sound like a man.
Sounds
Right, it’s achieved by having 2, intact, X chromosomes.
Thanks for sharing 🙏
Because he is a man.
Abby, luces muy feliz, te deseo mucho èxito .
oh my gosh
Abby Jesus loves you. You can be delivered from this you still have time.
God I love trans lesbians and bisexuals.
Depressed soul
Aww... you're welcome at my Shabbos table 🌹
Wtf
This isn’t news.
I feel pity for you. Hope you find the light. Shallom
he still takes his shoes off the correct way.. left to right