“Meet the Arab Woman Who Has Just Become the First Miss Trans Israel, Talleen Abu Hanna”
“I wouldn’t be alive if I grew up in Palestine,” she says in perfect Hebrew. “Not as a gay man, and definitely not as a transgender woman.”
“I got really lucky to live in a country where they bring everything to you on a silver platter” says Abu Hanna, ticking off each of her long fingernails the rights she’s been given as a transgender Israeli woman: people refer to her with female pronouns, her Israeli ID card says that she is female and she can enter retirement at a younger age.”
Meet the Arab Woman Who Has Just Become the First Miss Trans Israel
“I wouldn’t be alive if I grew up in Palestine,” she says in perfect Hebrew. “Not as a gay man, and definitely not as a transgender woman.”
“I got really lucky to live in a country where they bring everything to you on a silver platter” says Abu Hanna, ticking off each of her long fingernails the rights she’s been given as a transgender Israeli woman: people refer to her with female pronouns, her Israeli ID card says that she is female and she can enter retirement at a younger age.”
Meet the Arab Woman Who Has Just Become the First Miss Trans Israel
