 In January 2015 a transgender Jewish woman , Kay Long , was denied access to the Wall , first by the women 's section and then by the men 's section . Long 's presence was prevented by " modesty police " at women ’ s section who are not associated with the rabbi of the Western Wall or the site administration . They are a group of female volunteers who guard the entrance to the women ’ s section preventing entry to visitors who are not dressed to their idea of Orthodox modesty standards for women . The director of Jerusalem ’ s Open House , a community center for the lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender community , noted that Long ’ s experience was not unique . " Gender separation at the Western Wall is harmful for transgender people . This is not the first story that we know of with transgender religious people that wanted to go to the Western Wall and pray and couldn ’ t , " said Elinor Sidi , who expects that the battle for access to the Western Wall for the <unk> community will be a long and difficult one . 
