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Israeli transgender soldier finds solace in service
by Ian Lee
August 5, 2017

Two years ago, Micha Yehudi hit rock bottom. The 25-year-old Israeli soldier was working 18-hour days and couldn’t sleep at night. Instead he watched videos of women going through the processes of transitioning into men. “I was in a very bad place emotionally and mentally,” Yehudi recalls…”I had never told anyone before, I barely told myself. I was terrified,” says Yehudi. “I cried during the interview from the moment the reaction came out of his mouth. He [his commander] said, okay and that was it.” Within a month and a half — what Yehudi calls light speed for Israel’s military — the army came up with a plan. The captain would retain his commission and the army would help with the transition by supplying medication and time off when needed READ MORE