Sheila Weinberg becomes Israel’s first transgender council member
WDG is the Washington Blade’s media partner in Israel. WDG published this article on their website. Sheila Weinberg on Feb. 27 wrote another chapter in LGBTQ history in Israel when she was elected as the country’s first transgender council member.
Weinberg, the 65-year-old chair of the “Transiot Israel” association and a former teacher, was elected to the Kiryat Tivon Local Council after her “More to Tivon” list won 37.7 percent of the votes.
In the past she was a member of the LGBTQ Committee in Kiryat Tivon and in the last year she was active in the protest against the proposed judicial reforms.
Weinberg has two children and a granddaughter. She started the process of affirming her gender about five years ago when she was 60 years old. “Many people in Kiryat Tivon knew exactly who I was and about my past.
