Many gay Reform Jews saw their movement's decision to allow rabbis to officiate at gay commitment ceremonies as a victory, especially as the national media touted the Reform movement as the, "first major religious denomination to officially sanction same-sex unions." As with the Conservative movement, the Reform rabbis argued for the equal inclusion of same-gender relationships on the grounds that gay Jews had no choice about their sexuality. Speaking directly to bisexual Jews, Dorff and his colleagues wrote, "We instruct any Jew who has sexual longings for someone of the opposite sex to marry a Jew of the opposite sex and to maintain complete fidelity to his or her spouse." Others created rituals specific for queer and transgender Jews, such as a mikveh (ritual bath) gender affirmation ceremony for when transgender Jews transition from their assigned birth sex to their correct gender. [Extracted from the article]
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