it’s forbidden in Islam for to be trans/crossdresser
It’s not forbidden to be trans in Islam. Interpretations vary, but Egypt and Iran had fatwas issued in the 80’s supporting the rights of transgender people to sex-reassignment surgery. A trans women even ended up on Pakistan’s supreme court, and Pakistani clerics have issued a fata saying that “humiliating, insulting or teasing them” is haram. Trans people still aren’t treated great, but in a manner by no means unique to Islam or as extreme as they make it out to be.
I’ve been learning a bit about Islam and their legal stuff. It’s so extensive, there’s so much there and I can’t believe this wasn’t something I learned. Like you hear that algebra and algorithm get their names from Arab folks (or at least from stuff that happened during the Islamic Golden Age), and I never heard anything about their complex legal tradition. I love bureaucracy, when I read US military documents or read about Stalin’s bureaucracy, I get excited at the litany of documentation and writing I can ponder through looking for something specific.
I now hope to go to an Islamic country (Iran, Iraq, Jordan, etc.) and have the opportunity to check out their libraries and learning centres.
It’s not forbidden to be trans in Islam. Interpretations vary, but Egypt and Iran had fatwas issued in the 80’s supporting the rights of transgender people to sex-reassignment surgery. A trans women even ended up on Pakistan’s supreme court, and Pakistani clerics have issued a fata saying that “humiliating, insulting or teasing them” is haram. Trans people still aren’t treated great, but in a manner by no means unique to Islam or as extreme as they make it out to be.
I’m talking about this hadith it’s just “don’t do it”, but there’s nothing enforcing you not to do it.
I’ve been learning a bit about Islam and their legal stuff. It’s so extensive, there’s so much there and I can’t believe this wasn’t something I learned. Like you hear that algebra and algorithm get their names from Arab folks (or at least from stuff that happened during the Islamic Golden Age), and I never heard anything about their complex legal tradition. I love bureaucracy, when I read US military documents or read about Stalin’s bureaucracy, I get excited at the litany of documentation and writing I can ponder through looking for something specific.
I now hope to go to an Islamic country (Iran, Iraq, Jordan, etc.) and have the opportunity to check out their libraries and learning centres.
You hear about cutting hands though