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For example, time-bound positive mitzvot (commandments) that men are obligated to keep and women are exempted, androgynos individuals must keep the obligation. Those who classify an androgynos individual as definitively both male and female would agree with this principle, though practice may differ in certain cases. [ 9 ]
Jewish Law has specific legal obligation that differ for men and women, and thus gender becomes an exceedingly important aspect of one’s identity. When determining the legal gender of androgynos individuals, a minority of Jewish Law decisors, “posek”, classify androgynos individuals as completely male.
Jewish views of transgender people have varied by time and denomination. Rabbinic Jewish texts discuss six sex/gender categories. [76] [77] [78] The term saris (סָרִיס), generally translated to English as "eunuch" or "chamberlain", [79] appears 45 times in the Tanakh.
Karl M. Baer (1885–1956), German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist. [5]Nubia Barahona, a ten-year-old American girl murdered in 2011.; Herculine Barbin, the 19th century memoirs of this French intersex person were published by Michel Foucault in 1980. [6]
Ardhanarishvara, an androgynous composite form of male deity Shiva and female deity Parvati, originated in Kushan culture as far back as the first century CE. [9] [page needed] A statue depicting Ardhanarishvara is included in India's Meenkashi Temple; this statue clearly shows both male and female bodily elements. [10]
In Jewish tradition, the term ay'lonit (איילונית in Hebrew, translation "ram-like woman") refers to a person born female at birth who later developed "male characteristics". During puberty , an ay'lonit will not develop secondary-sex characteristics and is assumed to be infertile. [ 1 ]
Gender and Jewish Studies is an emerging subfield at the intersection of gender studies, queer studies, and Jewish studies. Gender studies centers on interdisciplinary research on the phenomenon of gender. It focuses on cultural representations of gender and people's lived experience. [1]
In Jewish tradition, the term saris (Hebrew: סָרִיס, literally eunuch;) is a term used to refer to an individual assigned male at birth who has done one of the following: develop female characteristics; fail to reach sexual maturity by 20 years old [citation needed]; undergo castration.