Why Trans Day of Torah?

For generations, trans people have celebrated our lives and communities through ritual that calls us up in and in, in all our beauty and wholeness. As we mark Shabbat, a day of rest and rejuvenation, Trans Day of Torah marks a shared time and knowing that all over, Trans Jews will see and experience our beauty, our wholeness, our communal experience interwoven with a central part of our prayer service. 

Trans people have days of remembrance and days of visibility. Our lives aren’t defined by our mere existence or our deaths. We also deserve to thrive with active celebration and in our leadership. Trans Day of Torah exists for Trans Jews to be in our fullness of joy, spirit and love of our trans jewish selves, to see and celebrate ourselves reflected in the day to day gloriousness of our lives.

Reading the Torah can be a gorgeous, stressful, healing, a reckoning, a revelation. We want to do it together in celebration, love and reclamation.