![]() Remember, production time is not shipping time! We still need to ship the item to you and that takes time. 99 cents, you can get many of our items much faster than if you choose Normal production. What this means is that what typically may take 7 - 10 business days to arrive at our facility, will now be rushed shipped to us to cut your waiting time in half. We are now offering RUSH service on many of our gift items. “I’m seen for who I am and what I can offer the group.Many of our items can be RUSH produced in as little as 1 day. “When I’m with those sorority sisters I’m in a gendered space, but I’m not seen for my gender.” Draznin said. “Not being outright cruel but just a general ‘I don’t understand this, so I don’t really know how to treat you as a student and as a peer.’ I’ve had a peer in a class tell me that trans people don’t exist.”ĭraznin describes being able to find a home on campus where they and other gender nonconforming people are accepted as “incredible.” “I’ve faced a decent amount of backlash from professors and other students,” Draznin said. ![]() ![]() Our Hillel actually has a trans staff member, so for the past few years I’ve had that to look to,” Draznin said.Ī few members of the Jewish community made disapproving comments about Draznin’s gender identity, but the bulk of the pushback has happened in the classroom. “For me, Judaism has always been a really, really inclusive and accepting space. The Union for Reform Judaism - the congregational arm of the largest Jewish movement in the United States - offers guidance to synagogues on how to tailor b’nei mitzvah ceremonies for transgender or nonbinary children. The teen programming group Moving Traditions runs a monthly discussion group for Jewish transgender and nonbinary teens.ĭraznin, who grew up attending a Reform synagogue in Fairfax, Virginia, says they were more worried about backlash from other students and members in the Greek community than from the Jewish community. Though transgender people still face challenges in the Jewish community - particularly in the Orthodox world - they are increasingly being welcomed in many progressive Jewish communities. The chapter currently has 15 members and hosts Shabbat dinners, Rosh Hodesh events and religious services. “I realized I didn’t fully feel like I was a woman all the time, but I didn’t ever feel that I was a man either,” Draznin said.ĭuring college, as they met others who shared similar feelings, Draznin felt comfortable coming out, a process that they describe as “kind of nerve-wracking.”ĭraznin, who also serves as programming chair for the university’s Hillel, decided to found the Cincinnati chapter of SAEPi in 2016 along with five others because there was no campus group specifically for Jewish women. (Courtesy of Draznin)ĭraznin started questioning their gender identity in 11th grade. “Elliot’s presence in this role has sparked conversations across campus among several other fraternities and sororities to challenge their national boards to revisit their intake policies and practices to be more inclusive, specially of trans people,” Douglas told JTA in an email.ĭraznin, top right, with some SAEPi sorority sisters. In 2017, the historically Jewish sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi changed its policy to include transgender women, though it did not mention those who identify as nonbinary.ĭraznin is the first openly transgender person at the University of Cincinnati to serve as the president of a Greek organization, according to Jayson Douglas, interim director of the school’s LGBTQ center. ![]() Like SAEPi, an increasing number of sororities and fraternities have released policies welcoming transgender members in recent years. “Both our campus partners and the national organization share the responsibility of ensuring that students who maybe don’t identify as cisgender or heteronormative have the opportunity to know explicitly where they are going to have the most positive, inclusive and welcoming experience,” she said. The decision was prompted both by Draznin and two other transgender individuals joining the sorority, as well as conversations happening around inclusion with other Greek organizations, according to executive director Chayla Furlong. In August, SAEPi, which was founded in 1998 and has 23 chapters and colonies across the country, changed its policy to make it clear that transgender and gender nonconforming people are welcomed as members. “It was a lot of deciding that I believe in this mission, so even though I don’t identify as a woman, I’m going to stay in this gendered space to keep the idea of a Jewish space for women alive on the University of Cincinnati’s campus,” Draznin told JTA last week.
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