The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization in the US, recently declared a national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans due to what they call an unprecedented increase in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative attacks.

Abby Stein, a transgender activist who was raised in a Hasidic family in Williamsburg, sheds light on the historical support for transgender individuals by Hasidic sages dating back 200 years.