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Ariel Tovlev

Mar 297 min read

Is Our Desire to Create "Safe Spaces" Supporting Segregation? A Reflection on How Communities Protect Trans Children but Avoid Trans Adults

It is not enough to protect trans kids if we are not empowering and honoring trans adults. Much of the transgender rights movement has...

Ariel Tovlev

Aug 14, 20205 min read

Trans Love is Miraculous

Anyone who has been in love knows how otherworldly the feeling is: the out-of-body feeling of weightlessness, the in-the-body feeling of...

Ariel Tovlev

Jun 13, 20204 min read

Anti-Trans Legislation

The government's attempt to roll back trans healthcare protections is personal to me. Between 2014-2015, I spent an entire year trying to...

Ariel Tovlev

Dec 24, 20194 min read

Living Out Loud

I've been thinking about something lately. I know I talk a lot about being trans. And some people who haven't known me very long might be...

Ariel Tovlev

Apr 2, 20195 min read

Gender Neutral English and Hebrew

Language that we use holds meaning and weight. We categorize things based on the words that we use for them. Without each of their...

Ariel Tovlev

Mar 11, 20193 min read

The Only One

Sometimes people ask me how things are going for me, with regard to me being a trans rabbinical student. And I really appreciate the...

Ariel Tovlev

Dec 4, 20174 min read

What's In a Name?

A lot of people didn't know me before my transition, so not everyone knows that the name Ariel was given to me by my parents at birth....