Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman

The powerful coming-out story of an ultra-Orthodox child who became a woman and a voice for gender freedom Abby Chava Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without access to TV or the internet and never taught English, she suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood into mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family and her way of life.

• | Author: Abby Stein
• | Publisher: Seal Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2019
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781580059169
• | ISBN-10: 1580059163