Another reason to support Israel! Or not.
I mean, would it bother you if your son or daughter married a transgendered person? And if so, why would it bother you?
A friend says: “I actually think that is the question that should be put to Clinton, Obama and everyone else who supports transgendered rights. Of course they would say something to the extent that if their son or daughter were truly in love with a transgendered person they would support them, but I think even posing the question might wake some people up to how bizarre the whole thing is.”
Forward: A Christian Arab-Israeli ballet dancer won Israel’s first-ever transgender beauty pageant.
Ta’alin Abu Hanna, 21, was named “Miss Trans Israel” in Tel Aviv Friday, the Jerusalem Post reported .
Abu Hanna told reporters she is “proud to be an Israeli Arab,” noting, “If I had not been in Israel and had been elsewhere — in Palestine or in any other Arab country — I might have been oppressed or I might have been in prison or murdered.”
The Nazareth resident will represent Israel at the Miss TransStar International pageant in Barcelona in September — the first time an Israeli will participate.
She also will receive $15,000 worth of plastic surgery treatments from a hospital in Thailand, plus airfare and a hotel stay during the treatments and recovery.
Abu Hanna beat out 11 other finalists, a diverse group spanning Israel’s geographic, ethnic and religious diversity, including a Russian, Muslims and residents of Beersheba, Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. At least one finalist grew up in the haredi Orthodox community.
