#gender identity and islam

[hummussexual]

عربي/EN/فارسى المراجع الذين افتوا بجواز العبور الجنسي كثيرين، ومنهم : الخوئي الخميني خامنئي المنتظري الاصف محسني فضل الله الحكيم وسنخصص منشور في الفترة القادمة لكل شخصية ورايها بالعبور الجنسي، على رغم ان هذه القائمة تحتوي على بعض الشخصيات التي نعتبرها شخصيات ليست جيدة، الا اننا هنا لا نحاول تلميع صورة هذه الشخصيات، وانما ايضاح الموضوع لاتباعهم من الناس، بالاضافة الى شرح حلية موضوع العبور من زاوية المراجع الذين افتوا بحليته. There are many religious authorities who have issued fatwas permitting gender reassignment, including: Al-Khoei Khomeini Khamenei Montazeri Al-Asef Mohseni Fadlallah Al-Hakim We will dedicate a post in the coming period to each person and their opinion on gender reassignment. Although this list contains some bad people, we are not trying to polish the image of these people, but rather to clarify the subject for their followers, in addition to explaining the permissibility of the subject of transition from the perspective of the authorities who issued fatwas permitting it. بسیاری از مراجع دینی وجود دارند که فتواهای مجاز برای تلاقی جنسیت صادر کرده اند، از جمله: الخویی خمینی خامنه ای المنتظری اصف محسنی فضل الله الحكيم در دوره آینده، ما یک پست به هر شخصیت و نظر آنها در مورد انتقال جنسیت اختصاص خواهیم داد، اگرچه این لیست حاوی شخصیت های بد است، اما در اینجا سعی نمی کنیم تصویر این شخصیت ها را صیقل دهیم، بلکه بیشتر سعی می کنیم موضوع را روشن کنیم افرادی که آنها را دنبال می کنند، علاوه بر توضیح راه حل مسئله گذار جنسیتی از دیدگاه مراجعی که زیبایی او را کشف می کنند.

[coochiequeens]

He killed a literal baby. And now he wants to sue the state for damages?!

By Anna Slatz February 14, 2024

A trans-identified male currently serving a 55-year sentence for the murder of his infant stepdaughter has launched a lawsuit against the Chaplain at his prison after he was allegedly denied a hijab despite identifying as a Muslim woman. Autumn Cordellioné, previously known as Jonathan C. Richardson, is seeking $150,000 in damages.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Cordellioné was first arrested in 2001 after his 11-month-old stepdaughter died in his care while her mother was at work. The night of the infant’s death, Cordellioné had been visited by friends who later told police that he had been “acting strangely.”

Despite claiming the little girl was inside sleeping, Cordellioné had loud music playing in the home, and his guests noted that he appeared to have a fresh, bleeding tattoo of the child’s name carved into his arm.

Autumn Cordellioné as of August 2023. Photo Courtesy: Indiana Department of Corrections.

Later that night, after his friends left, Cordellioné went to his neighbor and asked him to call 911, claiming the child was unresponsive. When emergency personnel arrived, they were briefly able to resuscitate the girl, but she died shortly after being rushed to the hospital. 

Cordellioné was interviewed by police, who noted he was “calm and unemotional” during questioning, and his story about what happened to the baby changed dramatically over the course of the two interviews conducted.

At first, Cordellioné claimed he found the baby unresponsive after doing some household chores. But in the next interview, Cordellioné said the child was being “fussier than usual” and he attempted to throw her up in the air repeatedly in an effort to calm her down. He said her “head bopped forward and back up in a rough type of a manner,” and that the child continued to cry so he proceeded to shake her aggressively in an effort to calm her down.

During a failed appeals hearing, detectives from the case recounted how Cordellioné “physically showed” how he had manhandled the girl, getting up out of his chair and demonstrating the action in a rough manner.

An autopsy subsequently found that the baby had died of asphyxiation by manual strangulation. Cordellioné was booked awaiting a court hearing, and would later tell a prison official “all I know is I killed the little fucking bitch.”

Cordellioné was found guilty and sentenced to 55 years in prison for the horrific crime. He is currently incarcerated at the Branchville Correctional Facility, an institution for male offenders.

Last August, Cordellioné joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the Indiana Department of Corrections, citing “discrimination” on the basis of his gender identity. That case is currently in progress.

But Reduxx has now learned that that Cordellioné has also launched a separate suit against the prison’s Chaplain, Tony Gray. Gray has been a Chaplain at the facility since 2014, and volunteered at the institution prior to being offered an official role.

Branchville Chaplain Tony Gray. Photo Source: Indiana Department of Corrections

In the lawsuit, filed on November 3, 2023, Cordellioné accuses Gray of violating his First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights.

According to court records obtained by Reduxx, the incident of complaint took place in May of 2023 after Gray informed Cordellioné that he was not allowed to don a hijab outside of his cell. In response, Cordellioné said: “I wear the hijab in order to cover my head and ears for modesty purposes, as I am an Islamic practicing transwoman.”

At the time, Cordellioné’s registered religion was “Wiccan” and Gray pointed that out, to which Cordellioné replied that he was an “eclectic practitioner who is a member of the Theosophical Society in America.”

The Theosophical Society is headquartered in Chennai, India, and is considered an “esoteric new religious movement.” Founded in 1875, it describes itself as a “unsectarian body of seekers after Truth,” and its practitioners appear to dabble in the philosophy and beliefs of multiple religions simultaneously. One of its founders is Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who stated in 1889 that “the purpose of establishing the Society was to prepare humanity for the reception of a World Teacher.”

Cordellioné is claiming that his equal protection rights were violated when he was barred from wearing a hijab outside of his cell, noting that male Muslims in the facility are allowed to wear kufis or taqiyah — a short, rounded brimless prayer cap.

“Islamic faith mandates the wearing of a kufi for males … Islamic faith also mandates females of the faith wear hijabs when outside the home and when not amongst men of their family. Tony Gray allows male Muslims to wear their sufis, but denies me, a transwoman, the same privilege.”

From the legal complaint filed by Cordellioné.

Cordellioné also alleges that Gray’s refusal to allow him to wear a hijab violated his eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment. In his argument, Cordellioné claims the he was subjected to “harassment and ridicule” by the Islamic community in his prison because he had not been allowed to wear a hijab.

“[Gray] should be aware, as Chaplain, the stigma and shame that is attributed to Islamic women when they go uncovered and without a hijab,” Cordellioné writes in his complaint. “Women are viewed as whores, tempters of men, and adulterators; by Islamic society both in and out of prison. I have been shunned, made a social pariah, and amongst my own religious community.”

He continues: “Without the support of the Islamic community, I will struggle and likely fail to achieve salvation for by [sic] Mohammed’s teachings a Muslim who knows of the teachings, yet strays from them, will never reach heaven.”

In his stated request for relief, Cordellioné is seeking the ability to wear his hijab in prison, as well as $150,000 in compensation.

Since filing, there has been some back-and-forth with the court surrounding Cordellioné’s financial situation, with the court requesting a nominal initial filing fee of $36.55, but Cordellioné claiming he does not have the money to pay it. If he cannot demonstrate deficiency in the time the court has specified, his case might be dismissed.

[alexes-graduation-2022-23]

Graduation project explanation

(The whole idea now)

Banner image is not mine

About me:

My goverment name is: M.H.

My chosen name is: Ben Alex.

My pronouns are: Zie/He/They/One (Zie/Zir)

I have graduated and this project is already done. Feel free to ask me anything about it! I am Czech, said project and presentation is also in Czech. I use this site because it makes it easy to keep all the information in one place. I have also used YouTube videos which I may link at one point here also (they are linked in the work itself). English is also the easiest language to get information in and I have no trouble reading or writing english myself. I am a demiboy/genderfaun/nonbinary/trans, I have a lot of other lables.

About the project:

A childrens show about diversity and specificaly minorities not seen in media. It specifies on false limbs, neopronouns and gender queerness, Islamic faith, autism, blindness spectrum and colorblind.

It is made to be colorblind friendly for all the kids to enjoy. Characters have different body types and skin colors as well as color pallets and personalitites. It might be made into a book later on when my life gets less busy.

The project is made to show how important representation of diversity can be for children and how it can be used as a learning tool as well as help children see themselves in characters on TV. I myself am nonbinary so this is a very personal project for me to create.

Future of this project is in the air but I do hope to write a childrens book since I love the characters and some of the ideas I have created for them.

So yea... that's that I guess!

[lemondropdew]

this is very very different from my usual topics.

my gender identity had taken a turn, calling myself cis feels wrong, but being nb or trans binary isn't right either. And in turn, that is affecting my religious idealogy. I have said previously that if I wasn't queer(trans specifically) /believed in the Abrahamic God, I would be Muslim. Now, one of those is becoming true. I'm not entirely sure on the belief of the Abrahamic God, but like, I'm questioning. And like what else do you do when you question? You learn. I owe it to the Greek Gods since they encourage learning. And if I do, go through with this, I owe it to Allah.

[makingqueerhistory]

Stonewall Book Awards Nonfiction Winners 2025-1971

Some years had multiple nonfiction winners. How many have you read?

Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster LLC)

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H (The Dial Press)

The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan (Bold Type Books)

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili (Little Puss Press)

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books)

Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them) (Duke University Press)

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster)

Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst (London: Repeater Press)

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (Los Angeles: Ammo Books)

How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS, by David France (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)

Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, by Kenji Yoshino (New York: Crown Publishers)

Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle (New York: New York University Press)

American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men, by David McConnell (New York : Akashic Books)

Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, by Lori Duron (New York: Broadway Books, an imprint of Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.)

For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home, edited by Keith Boykin (New York : Magnus Books)

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward (Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books)

A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History), by Michael Bronski (Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press)

Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf)

Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank, (St. Martin's Press)

Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr., (Viking)

Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, (HarperCollins)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, (Houghton Mifflin)

The fabulous Sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson, (H. Holt)

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden, (University of California Press)

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio, (Free Press)

How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz, ( Harvard University Press)

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth, (Nan A. Talese)

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge, (Harvard University Press)

My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich, (Greywolf Press)

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman, (Duke University Press)

The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon, (William Morrow and Co./Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)

Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson, (Scribner)

Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, (Anchor Books)

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature Dorothy Allison, (Firebrand Books)

Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein, (Fletcher Press)

Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke, (Random House)

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus, (HarperCollins)

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman, (Columbia University Press)

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes, (Garland)

In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller, (Atlantic Monthly Press)

A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle, (Firebrand Books)

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, (St. Martin's Press)

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams, (Beacon Press)

Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton, (South End Press)

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn, (Beacon Press)

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio, (University of Chicago Press)

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman, (Morrow)

Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts, (Naiad Press)

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo, (Harper & Row)

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, (Spinsters, Ink)

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell, (University of Chicago Press)

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book edited by Ginny Vida, (Prentice-Hall)

Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature edited by Jonathan Katz, (Arno Press) [Series of historically significant reprints]

Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)

The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher, (Stein & Day)

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Glide Publications)

A Place for Us by Isabel Miller, (published in October, 1971 by McGraw Hill as Patience and Sarah )

[qurbanjaan]

Throw rocks at me, but most if not all of the gender violence in Central Asia and Caucasus is due to religious reasons. Islam wasn’t “domesticated” and “tamed” like Christianity was.

Islam is still stuck on the same single day it was created and multiple issues women face in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa are due to islamization. You can see all the same issues repeating themselves in different places with different cultures and languages simply because people are screaming the name of a foreign God and abandoning their identities to try to mimic 600a.D Quraish culture.

Those habits have no place nowadays and need to be abandoned. For example:

Before the islamification of the region, when the Vainakh religion was predominant, women held big influence within their families and communities. The Vainakh customs, known as ʿadat, granted the roles and rights of women that included right for inheritance, property ownership, and under the ʿadat, women had certain legal protections. They could seek justice and were entitled to fair treatment in disputes.

Now, we have FGM.

[loveerran]

Maryam Khatoon Molkara was an Iranian transgender woman, born in 1950. Largely due to her efforts, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1987 that gender affirmation surgeries were not against Islamic law. Today, the Iranian government officially recognizes trans women as women, allowing them to: live as women until they can afford surgery (and helps pay for surgery), undergo gender-affirming surgeries, receive all birth certificates and other documents issued in a manner that reflects their gender identity, and even marry men (in a country where homosexuality can still be punished by death).

Interestingly, it was on a trip to London in 1975 that Maryam “learned about transsexuality and realized I was not a passive homosexual”. And that fascinates me because I had almost the exact same experience in the early 2000’s when I attended one of the bigger gender-cons and met gay drag queens for the first time. It took all of about 15 minutes of chatting with those gorgeous, effeminate gay men to realize we were not the same after all. That experience rewrote my impression of my self and my situation.

I’m not writing this entry in praise of LGBT rights in Iran. Far, far from it. But I find it interesting that one of the most hard-line, conservative regimes in the world has managed to find a set of policies with more acknowledgement, grace and individual liberty in this regard than those that appear to be espoused by the current US federal government.

[catinafigtree]

Hi, do you have any tips on how to be comfortable being a Muslim while being queer?

I've been trying to do that for a very long time, focusing on my faith in Allah, but it's a bit hard and I always get demotivated randomly :(

Hey! Salam! Sorry for the kind of late response, moving houses has been hectic. This will be a long response (sorry), so I will put it under the cut.

I want to preface this by saying every queer person is different. I don't know the specifics of your identity so I am going to cover both sexual queerness and gender queerness.

My biggest obstacle in nurturing my relationship with Allah was believing that the way I am was haram, and even that I was cursed by Allah. I no longer believe this, but it was a long road.

Sexuality

I don't believe that homosexuality is haram. The common claim that the story of Lut is about homosexuality is full of holes and inconsistencies and it's largely based on the Christian religious tradition, even if the grammar of the Qur'an doesn't align with the Christian tradition (eg. the Qur'an uses the word "banaat" for Prophet Lut's (as) daughters. Bannat is plural, meaning 3 or more daughters, and in the traditional telling Lut (as) has 2 daughters).

Here is a really good study by Nahida Nisa:

I recommend reading all of Nahida's things because she's an amazing writer.

And a video from Dr. Shehnaz Haqaani's (PhD, Islamic Studies) podcast "What The Patriarchy":

and you can find her blog here

These articles from the blog, Lamp of Islam are also pretty good. He is a hardcore Qur'anist with some strange opinions, so peruse his blog with caution.

Letting go of the belief that the way I am was haram and that Allah had cursed me was the most critical part of fixing my iman and overall nurturing my relationship with Allah.

Also, it doesn't make any sense that The All-Merciful, Allah would make someone with an innate attraction to the same gender and then forbid them from "acting on it".

The Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa salam) never punished anyone for homosexuality, after his death, his companions debated whether or not to punish homosexuals and they could not come to a conclusion.

Gender

The Qur'an seems to acknowledge the differences between sex and gender. For example, the word for 'man' in the Qur'an is rijal and the word for 'male' is dhukran. And the word for 'woman' is nisa, but the word for 'female' is untsa. You can read Lamp of Islam's article on the meanings of these words here.

There also may be a vague reference to intersex and/or gender non-conforming people in verse 42:50.

There are also some hadith that seem to imply that gender non-conforming people were accepted around Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu alayhi wa salam). Prophet Muhammad's (Salla Allahu alayhi wa salam) wife Umm Salama (Radi Allahu anha) had a seemingly close friend who was then called a 'mukhanath', named Hit, who was described as a 'male who exhibited effeminate traits' was was welcome into the private women's section of the Prophet's (Salla Allahu alayhi wa salam) home. Today this person might have been a gay man (who displayed effeminate traits by accepting the "woman's role" (🙄) in relationships), or, more likely IMO, this person would be considered a trans woman today.

Hit was punished by the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa salam), but not for their sexuality/gender expression, they were punished for describing a woman's body to a man, which was possible because they were allowed into both men's and women's spaces. The punishment of Hit is often used as 'evidence' to support homophobia and transphobia, but they neglect to mention the specific reason that Hit was punished.

You can read more about queerness in Islamic history here.

The link above takes you to Muslims For Progressive Values, they also offer marriage services for queer Muslims and interfaith couples, specifically for Muslim women seeking to marry non-Muslim men.

Here is a link to MPV's video series, but massive trigger warning for the comment section.

And a second MPV video series.

And another article from MPV.

More Tips

As I said, learning about LGBTQ Islamic History helped me a lot.

Keep your relationship with Allah between you and Him. Only share it with people who you 100% trust, because religion is extremely personal.

Find your people. Whether online or in-person, a community of people like you is important.

Know that Allah knows you, your identity, and the way you feel. Ultimately, Allah is your creator and we will only return to him. And we, as queer people KNOW that this is the way we were created. Nobody can tell you that who you are is false because they have no way to know that.

Block. Block. Block. Block. Block anyone who is being a problem, who might become a problem in the future. Block them all. Block Islamophobic queers, block queerphobic Muslims. Protect your peace and your relationship with Allah at all costs.

Here are people that I block quickly: anyone who has outwardly queerphobic or Islamophobic things posted on their page. Salafis and Wahabis. The black flag freaks: those with black flags in their user names/bios. I block people for the comments they leave all the time. Generally, I don't wait for them to do something, I block them on sight.

You mentioned that you struggle with low imaan sometimes. It's important to know that fluctuations of imaan are normal and completely natural. But I'm assuming since you've sent this ask, you always come back, which is what's important.

Here is another video from Dr. Shehnaz Haqaani's (PhD Islamic Studies) Podcast for Muslims who struggle to practice.

And a TikTok from @/soundous.boualam:

My biggest tip for building faith is to start slow.

Pray one prayer a day at first, and wait until that prayer is deeply ingrained into your habits, then add another. I recommend starting with Isha before bed. Don't try to do everything at once. You'll burn yourself out.

Build up the fard actions. Your prayers, primarily.

If you can take on more, add in the dhikr after prayer (subhanallah 33x, alhamdullilah 33x, and allahu akbar 34x). Or add dhikr in throughout your day. I use an app called Azkar that I set to send notifications to remind me to do various worship activities.

When I braid my hair I say alhamdullilah every time I cross a piece over another.

If you can, it might also help to put a poster or picture on your wall with your favorite Qur'an verse, hadith, or Islamic quote on your wall, or make your screensaver a reminder to remember Allah.

You can also buy or make a beaded tasbih bracelet, sometimes having something on your wrist can make it easier to remember.

I also like to spend 20-30 minutes every morning after Fajr to just spend time with Allah, talk to Him, and read the Qur'an.

But also remember that you don't only get rewarded for outright acts of worship. You get rewarded for caring for your body, taking a nap when you're tired, eating food, drinking water, caring for pets, and spending time with family. All of that stuff is worship.

Be easy with yourself. Allah does not want hardship for you (2:185).

And I'll leave you with a Qur'an verse.

It was We Who created man, and We know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him that [his] jugular vein. (50:16)

I hope this helps you some. I love you. Allah loves you. May Allah bless you with peace, imaan, and His abundant guidance and mercy, Allahumma Ameen.

You can ask questions in the comments or in asks if you want.

[hummussexual]

Bangladesh’s first mosque specifically for hijra Muslims has officially opened its doors, as members of the legally recognized “third gender” community seek refuge from abuse and discrimination.

Named the Dakshin Char Kalibari Masjid for the Third Gender, the mosque opened in March, providing worship services for hijra people who are frequently turned away from other mosques due to prejudice, according to a report from the Agence France-Presse.

The mosque consists of a single-room building with a tin roof, paid for and built by hijras near the city of Mymensingh on government-donated land after hijra worshippers were expelled from the local community. The land already contains a graveyard and one plot, belonging to a hijra woman who was denied burial at a local mosque last year, AFP reported.

“From now on, no one can deny a hijra from praying in our mosque,” community leader Joyita Tonu, 28, reportedly told the congregation upon the mosque’s opening last month. “No one can mock us.”

The terms “hijra” and “transgender” are often used interchangeably in English media, but the two identities are separate in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries, though there is some overlap between them. The Bangladeshi government declared hijras a “third gender” distinct from men and women in 2014, but there is no formal path to be legally recognized as hijra. No standard policy for changing one’s legal gender marker to “hijra” exists, and various types of identification cards carry mismatched gender markers, according to the international LGBTQ+ rights group ILGA. Even vague recognition has come with drawbacks, such as the association of hijra identity with disfigurement and complex disability politics. In the decade since winning formal recognition, hijras have also experienced a dramatic rise in violence, medical abuse, and ostracization as religious fundamentalism surges across the region. (Same-sex intercourse itself is illegal in Bangladesh, but that law is not evenly enforced.)

Sonia, 42, told AFP reporters that despite being a devout Muslim all her life, she was abruptly kicked out of her mosque after coming out as hijra. “I never dreamt I could pray at a mosque again in my lifetime,” she recalled. “People would tell us: ‘Why are you hijra people here at the mosques? You should pray at home. Don't come to the mosques.’

“It was shameful for us, so we didn't go,” she added. “Now, this is our mosque. Now, no one can say no.”

Hijra communities have slowly reestablished dedicated spaces of safety in recent years, despite frequent backlash from conservative leaders. In 2020, the first Muslim school (or madrasa) for hijra students opened in Bangladesh, combating the community’s lack of access to educational and religious resources. Designed for safety, community, and healing, spaces like the madrasa and mosque have also begun shifting public opinion of hijras in the country.

“When they started to live with us, many people said many things,” area resident Tofazzal Hossain told AFP last month; after praying alongside them, he says his own “misconceptions” of hijras, in general, have changed. “[W]e've realized what people say isn't right. They live righteously like other Muslims,” Hossain said.

[olderthannetfic]

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/768731859531235328/im-a-cis-woman-who-sometimes-likes-to-roleplay-as?source=share

yeah, anon, along with people pointing out that drag is a thing that exists and most drag queens/kings identify as cis outside of that performance (though plenty don't), there's also all kinds of sexual roleplay that doesn't involve wanting to be that thing 24/7. lots of people love to play "doctor" who have no desire to actually go to medical school and become real doctors, because the sexy version is fundamentally different from the non-sexy one. why would playing with gender be any different from that? of course it's true that some people do try those things on as kinks and then it awakens something in them - in the same way that most of us who are into anime knew a "guy" who really liked crossdressing cosplay and would always jump at the chance to do it, and now that person is, well, no longer a guy. sometimes it can be a way to try on an identity that you are considering but not yet sure about. likewise, there are more than a few drag queens who end up realizing that they are trans women down the line. but many more who don't! anyway, my point was that i went through this journey. i used to have a lot of fantasies about having sex as a man specifically, with both men and women - and i played with the idea that i might be trans or genderfluid. but for me, i realized that a lot of the appeal of it was that it was temporary, something i could turn on and off at will (and not just in the sense of gender-expression, but like a complete physical transformation). i wasn't interested in being a man if it meant i stayed a man. i still wanted to be a woman most of the time. (also, i identified as bisexual at the time and these fantasies largely went away around when i realized i was actually a lesbian. i'm not sure what exactly that says, maybe that it was more rooted in anxiety around women's expected "role" in sex than it was about actually wanting to be a man? maybe that the idea of being with a man was more appealing if it was gay, closer to the thing i really wanted? who knows) from when i've talked to trans people about this, a lot of them say it's easy for someone for whom the answer was "i'm trans" to in retrospect see signs everywhere - and therefore assume that the same signs mean the same to other people. and of course, they often feel like they lost years of their lives to an identity that didn't fit them - of course they want to save others from the same fate! but it's just that we all have a bias toward seeing the world through the lenses of our own experiences. that it meant one thing for them doesn't mean it means the same for you, especially in isolation. most cis people aren't totally wedded to everything about our genders, either, and a lot of us play around and experiment with gender in our own ways. (so basically, i see it as similar to those "comphet lesbian checklists" that were floating around tumblr a few years ago - yeah, a lot of those can be signs you might be a budding lesbian, but half the shit on that list is true for women who turn out to be completely heterosexual, too, a lot of it's just about the bullshit of female puberty) again, useful to think of it like anything else. religion is one that comes to mind: oftentimes, a strong hyperfixation on a particular religion or the culture surrounding it can be an early sign that you want to convert to that religion. lots of muslim converts, for instance, talk about being fixated on middle-eastern/north african culture or islamic history for years before they converted. but also, there are just as many if not more people where those hyperfixations turn out to be fleeting ones, or even where it remains a lifelong passion but is purely academic (you meet a lot of them in academia, naturally).

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[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Review IV (WA 2025): Australian Christians

Prior reviews: federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, federal 2019, federal 2022, plus my friend’s b_auspol review for WA 2021

What I said before: “do we really need another party peddling a rose-tinted view of 1950s middle class white morality and theologically unsound conservative interpretations of the Bible?” (federal 2013)

What I think this year: One of the most noticeable shifts in the Australian micro-party landscape over the past decade has been the declining number of explicitly religious parties. Where once voters had to wade through multiple parties whose reason for existing was to advance the interests of a specific subsection of the Christian faith, this election the only such party on the ballot is the Australian Christians. Now, yes, the Democratic Labour Party is more or less a party targeting Catholic voters, but just you wait for my review of their WA copycat party that is now named, and I emphasise that this is the exact name formatted as registered, “Stop Pedophiles! Protect kiddies!” It’s going to be a corker.

The Australian Christians’ heartland is WA. They originated as a splinter from the Christian Democratic Party of Fred Nile, who polluted NSW’s Legislative Council with his regressive views for decades. Evidently no longer willing to work with Fred, the WA and Victorian branches went their own way and formed this party in 2011. The Victorian wing has since fizzled out, but Australian Christians remain very active in WA and have one councillor in Rockingham, Mike Crichton, who is the party president and listed second on their slate for the Legislative Council. First is Maryka Groenewald, the party’s state director.

This party is repugnant. On their website, they currently have two specific campaigns. The first shows that they are transphobes: the Cook Labor government passed the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment (Sex or Gender Changes) Act 2024, which allows trans and gender-diverse people to obtain official documents that match their identity; Australian Christians insultingly call it the “Abolishing Women Bill” and want to reverse it. The second underscores how they oppose women’s bodily autonomy: it is a “pledge for life” that opposes abortion rights.

Beyond this, they want their own theological views made into the law of the land. Their acknowledgement that other religions can be practiced freely in Australia is begrudging. They seem more extreme than ever in the narrowness of their vision for society. Take as an example their opposition to universal childcare. Groenewald has written a blog post condemning a proposal Labor is taking to the federal election to subsidise three days of childcare a week, because heaven forbid mothers have a life outside the house or be defined by anything other than child-rearing.

This party is based on a falsehood: they claim that Australian “society’s values are based on our Judeo-Christian heritage, which are ultimately outlined within the Bible”. They claim to be “building on the foundation of Australia as ‘A Christian Commonwealth’ as originally described in 1901 in the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia”. Australian society is secular. It was not founded as a Christian Commonwealth. Our constitution prohibits an established religion. Christianity has been prominent historically, but our society evolves over time and no faith has a special claim to define it.

At the last census in 2021, only a minority of the population identified as Christian (43.9%), with nearly as many specifying no religion (38.9%) and a significant number did not state any faith (7.3%). The remainder of the population observes diverse faiths (the three observed by more than 1% of the population are Islam on 3.2%, Hinduism 2.7%, and Buddhism 2.4%). Among that 43.9% who are Christian, there are diverse denominational confessions with quite striking disagreements within and between them. Australian Christians, the party, cannot claim to represent more than a fraction of Christians in Australia; for instance, it is hard to imagine the average member of the Uniting Church shares many of their attitudes! It is both arrogant and conceited for any politician to think their particular religious confession should guide lawmaking and public policy in Western Australia.

Recommendation: Give Australian Christians a weak or no preference.

Website: https://australianchristians.org.au

[closeted-canine]

➶-͙˚ ༘ ✶《- [INTRO POST] -》ೃ⁀➷

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Hello, every creature! I realized I have yet to make an introduction post, so here it is!

Si hablan Español, hace clic aquí

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《-[ABOUT ME]-》

Name:

Wolf (English)

Lobo (Spanish)

Nicknames:

Wolfie (English)

Lobito (Spanish)

Pronouns + Gender:

He / Him / It / Its + Canine Neopronouns

Trans Male

Age + Birthday:

18 y/o • 08/25

Sexuality:

Bisexual

Demi-romantic

Nationality:

American (U.S.A)

Ethnicity:

Mexican / American

Located:

California, U.S.A

Languages:

English (Primary, native-speaker)

Spanish (Secondary, Intermediate)

Non-human identity / terms used:

[Domestic Dog]:

German Shepherd / Doberman

[Gray Wolf]:

Alaskan Timber Wolf (Northern Alaska)

[Werewolf]

Brown-fur Werewolf

- - - -

[Preferred Terms]:

Transspecies (Canine)

Holothere / Physical nonhuman

Non-human

Canine / Dog / Wolf

[Sometimes used, not Preferred]:

Otherkin

Therian

Likes:

Minecraft, taxidermy and vulture culture, Music, MLP;FIM, Bluey, all forms of art (painting, sewing, performance, etc.), nature, books, writing, and drawing, Herbal / natural medicine, paganism, animism, and witchcraft (especially animal and plant magic).

Dislikes:

Overstimulating situations, religious debates, ignorance, hate speech, unnecessary drama... (you get the idea)

Disorders / Conditions:

ADHD + Autism, Anxiety, Depression with psychotic features, PTSD

Disabled - Type 1 Diabetes (insulin dependent)

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《-[BOUNDARIES / DNI]-》

Notice: Purposefully disrespecting my boundaries will result in you being blocked. I will only correct you once, if you continue to disrespect me you will be blocked.

[Boundaries]:

Do not call me human, ever. Just do not call me human.

Do not refer to me as / call me a woman /female.

Do not use She / Her pronouns for me.

Do not refer to me as a therian or otherkin, I sometimes use these terms for myself so folk unfamiliar with terms like Transspecies can understand me easier but I do not identify with these terms.

Do not make sexual comments about me or my Non-humanity.

Please do not interact with me or my blog if you are under 16. If you are 16-17 you can interact with my blog by liking, commenting, following and sending asks. I'd rather you don't DM me but if its for something like an appropriate question about non humanity, go ahead.

(If you are under 18 and come across a NSFW post of mine, do not interact with it. Thank you)

I am okay with direct messages from adults (18 or older)! My DMs are always open, so if you have a question or just want to chat, feel free to send me a message!

I am also okay with folk asking to be friends or asking for my other socials.

My asks will always stay open, whether you want to ask anonymous or not, feel free to leave any questions you may have!

[DNI]:

Do not interact

Under 16, Racists, anti-LGBTQ+, Ableists, Sexists, Anti-therian / Anti-otherkin, Anti-Transspecies, Anti-Holothere / Anti-pysichal non-human, Anti-CLCZ, Anti-agere / Anti-petre

Interact With Cuation:

16-17 y/o, Curious and respectful beings who want to learn, Abrahamic Religious followers (Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Mormon, etc.)

Please Interact:

18 or older, transspecies, Holotheres / physical non-human, CLCZ, respectful non-humans (in general), Pagans, animists, any non-Abrahamic religious / spiritual beliefs, Witchcraft practitioners

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《-[My Tags]-》

Response Posts: #🌙 barking back

Venting Posts: # 🌕 howl n growl

Informative Posts: # 🌿 smart dog

Advice Posts: # 🌱 advice from the wolf

Spiritual Posts: # 🐾 soulful fur

Witchcraft Posts: # 🪶 magical pelt

Taxidermy Posts: # 🦴 tooth claw and bone

Light-hearted/Positive Posts: # ⭐️ happy tail

Spanish only posts: # 🇲🇽 perro latoso

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"Sí, tal vez mañana

Mi alma se apagará

Mi alma se apagará

Así que hoy no dejes de brillar

Luciérnaga artificial

No paremos de bailar"

Luciérnaga Artificial

(Nasa Histoires)

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[queermuslimarchives]

Waria

The waria community is an indigenous trans group that has held a centuries-old position in Indonesian society. In South Sulawesi, Warias are traditionally recognised as a social group, have been integral to Indonesian society for far longer than homosexuals.

The term "waria" is a combination of the Indonesian words "wanita" (woman) and "pria" (man). Waria are male who identify as women and express their gender identity through their mannerisms, clothing, and appearance. While some identify fully as women, others may not. Not all warias undergo sex reassignment surgery, but many choose to have breast implants and undergo hormone therapy.

The majority of warias are Muslim. Many pray at mosques and do hajj in male clothing due to strict gender norms. In 2008, Pondok Pesantren Waria al-Fatah, an Islamic boarding school, was established to offer safe spaces for prayer, Quranic lessons, and gatherings. Unfortunately, the madrasa was forced to close down after receiving threats from Islamists. Warias frequently face harassment from hardline Islamic groups, who exploit increasing sectarian tensions in the region to promote their interpretations of Sharia law.

[mostlyintact]

Hello, people!

Thank you for stopping by, and here's all the necessary things I could think of to share:

Name - You can call me Ave (rhymed with save) Pronouns - She/Her Age - I am in my early 20s From - South Asia, born and raised

Dni - I received an ask about it a while back, and I am just going to copy and paste my response to it.

Hmm, age is not an issue but please inform me of it if you are a minor and we happen to talk one-on-one. Most of the times, I check the accounts and take my cues regarding that. While there's nothing in particular that might be inappropriate about our conversation otherwise, if I am the elder in the scenario I have more responsibility towards ensuring everyone's welfare.

As for beliefs, any sort of homophobic, transphobic, ableist, anti-Islamic, antisemitic and any other hateful belief towards people based on things like religion, ethnicity, race, sexuality, gender-identity etc. is unwelcome. So, if you feel you fall in these categories well, there's a block button and I have no qualms about using it.

Lastly, ai things (while I am figuring out how I feel). I don't have very favorable opinions of it. And I think if I am going to be on your dash in any capacity, you should know it. (In the same vein, if you find I reblogged ai art or stolen art let me know!)

But the biggest one is, don't interact if you are just going to be mean for no reason.

Edit - I realize it might not be most comfortable thing to ask minors to acknowledge they are minors (even if I don't have any nefarious plots). But also, I don't want to end up having an inappropriate conversation even incidentally... I am opening the floor, whether if you are of any age if there are topics or boundaries which you wish to establish regarding conversations just throw it at me. I would not mind it. (I am not particularly interested in making people cough out their ages, but I also do have a habit to flirt with my friends. So, it's a bit tricky).

Now for the next part I have racked my brain to figure out how to do it. And my last two brain cells suggested I do this, here's to hoping it works:

Currently into - SFTH SRK (and movies, but then I fear I would always be into him so. My dedicated I am unwell about him blog is @amdone)

Things I liked but couldn't place anywhere else - Heartstopper RWRB Bridgerton

Sitcoms I watched and liked - Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Good Place (hmm, that's all I can recall. I am not as big on them.)

Thai-dramas I watched and liked - Full House Bad Buddy (yes, it's been a while since I traversed those lands and finished watching anything. But my watch later list flourishes because of them!)

C-dramas I watched and liked - Love o2o CQL (I was into mdzs fandom alright) (It's a short list, I haven't finished watching any C-drama in a hot minute. Since after Empress Ki (which was a pain))

K-dramas I watched and liked - No Gain No Love A Shop for Killers Beyond Evil (I might be able to list more on here. Hmm, let's see. Descendants of the Sun, W, Healer, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo, Business Proposal, Extraordinary You, The Devil Judge, Doom at Your Service, Cafe Minamdang, Shopaholic Louis, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, Marry My Husband, Tale of the Nine Tailed etc.)

Pak-dramas I watched and liked - Dobara Ishq Zahenaseeb Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay Ishq E Laa Zara Yaad Kar Pyar Ke Sadqay (and more, but these are the ones that came to me first.)

(Just for shit and giggles) Indian Soaps I watched (and liked? It's hard to decide having grown up with them) - IPK JA Jamai Raja KKB Swaragini Naamkaran Udaan IB (and DBO) YRHPK KHKT YRKKH (guess which gen) BALH BALH2

(Bonus) Only Turkish drama I watched and finished - Aşk Laftan Anlamaz

Things I do fandom lurking for (but source material is far from me) - HP/Marauders (been 'Rowling' while since I revisited the source material) Marvel DC Kiseki: Dear to me (and more.)

You can always send asks or messages (even if we have never interacted before), but I do hold the right to not respond if you are being rude.

Books I read and liked - Under construction

Games I played and liked - Under construction

YT/OTT Things - Under construction

Music - Please don't make me do this

[03josten]

Some of my favourite terminology for sex, sexuality, and gender that have mostly fell out of use:

Sapphist: Similar to the term Sapphic which is still in use, derived from the woman loving Greek poet Sappho. The -ist has implications of doing rather than being. A Sapphist is a woman who has romantic and sexual relationships with other women. It was commonly used in the 19th and early 20th century, eventually replaced by lesbian in common usage. Some famous historical figures who used this term include Vita Sackville-West, who also used the terms lesbian and homosexual.

Mukhannathun: Translates roughly to "effeminate ones" or "ones who resemble women", typically refers to a feminine male, an intersex person, or one whose sex is indistinct. Modern scholars place the term Mukhannath in correlation with trans feminine. Mukhannathun traditionally took on the social roles of women in Saudi Arabia and feature in Ḥadīth Islamic literature. They were often musicians and entertainers, Abū ʿAbd al-Munʿim ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dhāʾib (or Tuwais) being perhaps the first famous Mukhannath musician. I could not find any depictions of Mukannathun.

Invert: Sexology in the early 20th century believed that same sex desire and cross gender identification were natural in some people. It was coined in German by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) and translated across Europe and eventually into English as sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds Jr. (1840-1893) in 1883. Inverts were people whose natural sex instinct (heterosexual, cisgender) were "inverted", causing a natural desire for the same sex or to live as the other sex. It was thought that most inverts desired a relationship with a "normal" member of their own sex, for example a masculine presenting woman would desire a feminine presenting "normal" woman, a feminine presenting man would desire a masculine or "normal" man. While most sexologists thought sexual inversion was natural, they worried about corruption of "normal" people by inverts. The writer 'John' Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) identified as an invert and explored the life of inverts in her 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness.

Uranism: A Uranian was a man who was romantically or sexually interested in other men. One of the earliest records of the term comes from Friedrich Schiller's 'Sixth Letter' in the Aesthetic Education of Man in 1795. It is derived from the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite Urania, a manifestation of Aphrodite who was free of physical desire and instead was attracted by mind and soul. Ancient Greek literature was very important in the early formations of queer identity and self-recognition. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was known to use the term Uranian.

Tribadism: Derived from the Greek "tribas" which means "to rub", tribadism denotes both a sexual position (now known as tribbing or scissoring) and a woman who seeks to sexual dominate and/or penetrate another woman. This term could also be used to describe an intersex person who lives as female and is the penetrating partner during sex with women. It became the most common word to describe any kind of sexual intimacy between women in English literature from the 16th to 19th centuries. Marie Antoinette, queen of France from 1773 to 1792 was "defamed" in many anti-monarchist newspapers as being a tribade.

Eonism: Eonism was coined by English sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) to describe cross gender identification and presentation. "Eon" after the French diplomat Charlotte-Geneviève-Louise-Augusta-Andréa-Timothéa d'Éon de Beaumont, who was assigned male at birth but lived as a woman from 1777 until her death in 1810. Eonism was later replaced by transvestism in popular usage in the early to mid 20th century, coined by Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) in 1910.

Eunuch: the term Eunuch has many connotations but the one common factor that almost all definitions share is that a eunuch is an intentionally castrated male. Eunuchs can also be uncastrated, but put into the social role as eunuch due to their 1) feminine presentation 2) inability to procreate 3) attraction to men. Eunuchs were not seen as men in most cultures, they were specifically chosen and castrated in order to fill a specific, separate social role from men and women. It was sometimes punitive, for example under Assyrian law men who were caught in sexual acts with other men were castrated. Eunuchs often had positions in royal households in the Ancient Middle East, their sexlessness was seen to enhance their loyalty to the crown as they were less likely to be distracted by sex or marriage, and it also allowed for jobs to be given on merit, and not inherited since Eunuchs could not reproduce. In Ancient Greece certain sects of male priests were eunuchs. China had Eunuchs who were fully castrated (penis and testicles) and high ranking in imperial service. In Vietnam, many eunuchs were self castrated in order to gain employment in the royal households.

Homophile: coined in 1924 by Karl-Günther Heimsoth (1899-1933) in his dissertation Hetero- und Homophilie. The term was in common use in the 50s and 60s in gay activism groups. It was an alternative to homosexual coined in 1868 by Károly Mária Kertbeny (1824-1882) which was thought to have pathological and sexual implications, whereas homophile prioritised love and appreciation over the sex act or pathology. It is still in use in some parts of northern Europe. The Homophile Action League was founded by lesbian couple Ada Bello (1933-2023) and Carole Friedmann (1944-?) in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 1968, a year before the Stonewall Riots.

[woah-nifty]

personal post but also seeking advicd from other Muslims

finally went to masjid. it made me feel a lot better, but i think it further scrambled my gender identity vs presentation and the spaces i inhabit.

im a very feminine presenting trans man. this has never brought me dysphoria, i love being feminine as a man. but part of that is because my girlhood was ripped away via trauma at a very very young age. so it's nice to reconnect.

that also means, naturally, ive fallen more into women's spaces. even while being on t. it's comforting, and i am deathly afraid to lose that connection to other women. i feel like im lying, even when im open about being trans. specifically with Islam, though, i don't know where i fit. i wouldn't be grouped with the men, but im soon going to be too masculine to group with women. im just scared i don't fit in anywhere.

i don't have any specific questions, just want some advice. my mom suggested speaking to the imam about it & pray on it. but does anyone else have advice on what i can do?