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disclaimer: people making propositions on tumblr is not really how Jewish law/religion works, I am fucking around, but I am also serious about this concept and would like feedback.
previously, gendered sex in classical Jewish texts has encompassed zachar (dyadic cis male), nekevah (dyadic cis female), androgynos (positively androgynos intersex*), tumtum (negatively androgynous intersex*), saris (amab developing female characteristics or lacking a penis), and ay'lonit (afab developing male characteristics, infertile).
*“positive” androgyny here refers to the present of both male and female traits, and “negative” androgyny to the absence of sexed/gendered traits. it is not a value judgement.
traditionally, saris has been split into the categories saris hamah, a natural-born saris (an amab intersex person), and saris adam, one who becomes saris through human intervention (an amab transfeminine person.) with modern medical science, it is possible for people to reach positive or negative androgyny, and for afab people to develop what are considered male characteristics, through human intervention.
the proposition suggests to expand the hamah/adam distinction to androgynos, tumtum, and ay'lonit, creating distinct trans and intersex categories for each gendered sex.
disclaimer: people making propositions on tumblr is not really how Jewish law/religion works, I am fucking around, but I am also serious about this concept and would like feedback.
previously, gendered sex in classical Jewish texts has encompassed zachar (dyadic cis male), nekevah (dyadic cis female), androgynos (positively androgynos intersex*), tumtum (negatively androgynous intersex*), saris (amab developing female characteristics or lacking a penis), and ay'lonit (afab developing male characteristics, infertile).
*“positive” androgyny here refers to the present of both male and female traits, and “negative” androgyny to the absence of sexed/gendered traits. it is not a value judgement.
traditionally, saris has been split into the categories saris hamah, a natural-born saris (an amab intersex person), and saris adam, one who becomes saris through human intervention (an amab transfeminine person.) with modern medical science, it is possible for people to reach positive or negative androgyny, and for afab people to develop what are considered male characteristics, through human intervention.
the proposition suggests to expand the hamah/adam distinction to androgynos, tumtum, and ay'lonit, creating distinct trans and intersex categories for each gendered sex.