Mohammed Hijab – Trans-Regret – Exposing the other side

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a transgender individual as a guest for the 10th episode of The MH podcast. And there's a lot of
coverage in terms of the issues that were raised. We spoke about different things from biology all
the way through to religion. But one thing that came up, which I don't think, got the treatment that
it deserved, in terms of speaking about it was the
		

			idea of trans regret. Because when I went away and did my research and looked at some of the
YouTube, you know, videos that were made by individuals who regret the decisions that they had made,
I came across so many different videos, one in particular caught my eye of a 13 year old boy, who
had regretted started to take estrogen blockers and so on, or, you know, testosterone blockers, and
estrogen or some kind of medication, and then later on, regretted it, and in fact, wanted a surgery
to remove their *,
		

			which they had gotten from this medication. Let's take a look at a clip from that video, you've
grown *, haven't you as a result of the hormone therapy that you're being given? Yeah, so I
just started developing like, a girl when and which was the thing that I wanted at that time. But
now that's not so helpful. She's taking drastic action to have her young son's * surgically
reduced. Ellie wants to warn other parents what can go wrong. When doctors misdiagnose a child, as
transgender, they will run to pigeonhole him so quickly, I think they should have said here we have
a child who does have gender dysphoria. And he's going through a period of transition, where he
		

			needs to work out exactly how he feels. So we can see here is a classic case of an individual who
was encouraged by society to go in a direction which could have if he continued with that direction,
has such a life altering effect on them, that they would have been scarred for life quite
physically. Imagine going all the way through with the SRS surgery, to the extent whereby you remove
your genitalia as a as a male, your penis and your testicles, and you cannot retrieve them back,
they will be put into some kind of bag and they're thrown away by you just imagine that for a
second. These kinds of psychological states of minds dysphoria is that individuals have gender
		

			dysphoria, that can lead someone to that and then regret that they're after. Because of an ethic
that we have in the West that says, it's okay to identify with whatever you feel like you want to
identify with, is something I believe, which does need to be challenged head on. But it needs to be
challenged head on, not only within our community, the Muslim community, but outside of it in a
diplomatic and respectful and academic way. I don't think the way to deal with, you know, these
kinds of individuals who have these kinds of dysphoria is in psychological conditions should be
shunned. I don't believe that they should be thrown away. I don't believe that the discussion should
		

			be that no discussion. And unfortunately, although the majority of Muslims on social media were very
positive, there was a very loud minority, well, I must say, was, we're bringing forward a toxic kind
of attitude, which I don't think is conducive for anybody, not for the Muslim community, not for the
non Muslim community, not for the dour, not for the spreading of Islam, not for anything. And we
have to learn a new level of maturity. Now, when dealing with these issues, I've been dealing with
these issues for half a decade, not that long. Not that long, but enough to know that there's a way
of doing it, which is effective in a way which is not effective. We've seen Christian missionaries
		

			and apologists in the Bible Belt America, use the you know, sledgehammer approach. And it's been the
biggest failure of all things. Homosexuality is an abomination swearing, you know, shunning and all
this. And then, you know, at the end of it, people are isolated, alienated, and it doesn't work.
Muslims, some Muslims have attempted to adopt similar methods.
		

			Getting similar results, quite frankly, right. So what I think needs to be done is that we need to
change our attitude. We need to remember when Lord Allah is Salaam, when he was having conversations
with homosexuals, yes, he did tell them not to do certain things. And yes, he did condemn the
actions, but he also offered his daughters and marriage. Now we're going to think about one thing.
How can you offer your daughters in marriage with it?
		

			disrespectfully think about that as a question, right? If you offered his doors in marriage giving
them an option to heterosexuality, yeah. To this, these group of people said, Look, you know, just
we'll make it work and giving them an option to do the good actions. How can you do that whilst at
the same time being disrespectful to them, and being inhospitable to them,
		

			it's not possible that that can be the case. So law title is still and therefore if we ponder over
these verses with care, will realize, is employing different kinds of approaches, but is engaging
with them, speaking with them, and being respectful with them, this minority of Muslim people who
are on social media, not even happy with the fact that these discussions are taking place, quite
frankly, you are part of the problem. And you are the guru or the kind of people who will bring us
back as a community, we will not be able to help members of our community with these issues, nor
people outside of our communities with these issues. So what needs to happen is people just need to
		

			go back into their lanes, people need to realize that they may not be qualified, yet or experienced
enough to talk about every issue. And being you might find the transgender person disgusting, you
might find that, but let me tell you something, there are people on the other side who find you
disgusting, right? They look at your beard, and they look at your maybe a woman within the club, and
they find that disgusting. And they will never engage with those people, because those people to
them are the alien. Therefore, they will never be able to influence those people. Were saying, Look,
it's not about your aesthetic value judgments you might find people discussing, but you still have
		

			to engage with them, and respect them and give them the truth. This is our and this is what we need
to do.
		

			Finally, I want to say to you guys, that this should be a learning curve for everybody. Not
everybody needs to comment about everything. And when you're talking on behalf of Islam or as a
Muslim, realize that you can make one common one comment to members of a particular community that
would have otherwise be neutral to Islam and Muslims that will destroy that will destroy the image
of Islam and Muslim for that individuals for life. And that's why it's such a beautiful code in the
Quran, Allah Allah subhanaw taala says, What's been LMA? akula Joon ha jameelah be patient with what
they say and leave them a beautiful, leaving meaning leave them as neutrals, don't leave people that
		

			could otherwise be receptive to the Islamic message. Yeah, hating Islam because of the way you spoke
to them, or the way you've dealt with them, which is a completely anemic way, or Somalia. Kumara has
a lighter what I get, I think we have to acknowledge there are a lot of children who are confused
about their gender identity as a as a normal phase that they would go through. It's not uncommon to
be confused. The good news is they're going to grow out of it. Don't mess them up.