15 May 2014, The Tablet

To live is to change


 
IT WAS quite a journey. Sally Gross, who died earlier this year at the age of 60, was born Jewish and, classified as male, was given the name Selwyn. Then, after starting rabbinical studies, he was baptised a Christian and received into the Church, joining the Dominicans and being ordained a priest. Fr Selwyn taught theology and was sub-prior at the order’s Cambridge priory. But then, at the age of 40, Gross was formally classified as intersex and technically female, and became Sally. Thi
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