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  • (light dissonant music)

  • - I pretty much had an image in my mind

  • that most people in the world are Jewish,

  • and most Jews are ultra-Orthodox.

  • When I was 19 was the first time I got access to internet,

  • and I was like, okay, I have to check.

  • I found the right Hebrew Wikipedia page about trans people.

  • I couldn't read English at that point,

  • I was only able to read in Hebrew.

  • My life was never the same after that.

  • (light ambient music)

  • I'm Abby Stein, I was raised in the Hasidic Community

  • in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.

  • I identify as a woman of trans experience.

  • The Hasidic community in Williamsburg

  • is probably one of the most sheltered communities,

  • definitely in the US, perhaps even in the world.

  • Everything is different.

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  • I was raised without internet, TV, movies,

  • Broadway shows, music, magazines.

  • I couldn't have a conversation in English until I was 20.

  • In the Hasidic community, men shave their heads.

  • I hated that I had to shave,

  • I would have loved to have long hair.

  • Now it's just as different as it gets,

  • at least in terms of facial hair or, like, anything like that.

  • Growing up, I always identified more

  • with the feminine part, with the females

  • in my family and my community.

  • Every time that I tried to tell myself,

  • it's not that you're a girl, something else is the problem,

  • I would start battling with depression.

  • And it got to a point where I realized,

  • hey, this is not a life, I have to do something.

  • When I left the community that I was raised in,

  • I didn't know how to dress or how to talk to people,

  • and I had to figure out everything from scratch.

  • And in some ways that's exactly what I'm doing now

  • in terms of transition on the gender spectrum.

  • People tell me a lot, oh, you're so brave,

  • you're so strong, and I always feel like,

  • I don't know, I only did what I have to do to survive.

  • And if there's one thing that I could go back

  • and tell myself when I was six years old,

  • 12 years old, it's know there are other people like you.

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A2 初級 美國腔

向自由過渡 (Transitioning to Freedom)

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    許大善 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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