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[alexseanchai]

I distinctly recall somebody at some point linked an English translation of a poem from centuries ago, written by someone who in modern parlance is probably best identified as a Jewish trans woman--that being the subject of the poem, how much this Jewish man wanted to be a woman. The ending was something like, G-d gives the bitter with the sweet, and the poet remembers this at every morning recital of a particular praise to G-d, who did not make the speaker a woman.

Help I want to reread this. Anyone recognize it and have a link handy?

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[alexseanchai]

That first! That is the exact link I saw before!

Yeah, I will believe the second link is a much less accurate translation, but it's also a public domain translation thank you!

[steorra]

You're welcome! And I'm glad to have the other translation provided above to add to my list - I put together a table aligning the different translations and Hebrew as much as I can (but my Hebrew isn't really very good), and now I can add another column.