Orthodox Jewish leaders should thank Ladin for refusing to hide out, for reminding us how human beings should relate to one another."- The Huffington Post But it's Ladin's relationship with Judaism that anchors this book and makes it stand out.
"On the face of it, Through the Door of Life is the story of how Jay Ladin, the author and an English professor at Yeshiva University in New York City, transitioned into living as Joy Ladin. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Ladin's poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn't, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life.
We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after 40-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the “wrong” gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love.
With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes listeners inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman-Joy Ladin.
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