When I receive appeals from Jewish organizations exhorting me to fight antisemitism—which, they claim, is on the rise here and abroad—I tend to toss them away. During many periods of time, and in ...
Arlene Stein
Arlene Stein is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, where she directs the Institute for Research on Women. Her latest book is Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity (Pantheon, 2018). She is also the author of Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2014). 
Trans Like Us
When Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender in 2015, many commentators praised her bravery for claiming a truth that had been denied her at birth. At roughly the same moment, the story of Rachel Dolezal, the 37-year-old …