![]() ![]() We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after 40-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. ![]() Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the “wrong” gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes listeners inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman-Joy Ladin. ![]()
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