Yasir Qadhi – Fatwa Regarding Transgenderism in Islam

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			today inshallah we'll have an interesting thought that I'd be delighted to Allah. It's actually
going to be a summary of a project that you're going to be aware of soon as your many of you are
aware. Here in America, we have something called the fifth Council in North America, the field
Council of North America. It is the oldest Council of Rolla, it's over 45 years old. There are many
others but this is the oldest and Al Hamdulillah. I am one of the younger members of the council.
The field Council assigned me the task of writing a fatwa about transgenderism and what we as
Muslims should be thinking and teaching about this very thorny issue. So for the last few months, I
		

			was doing research and I submitted the fatwa eight pages long. Some modifications that has now been
approved is going to be published on the website. Very soon inshallah you will find the full fatwa
today's hotair. It will be based upon that fatwa that is going to be printed online. But please note
this Hatha is from me the fatwa is approved by the entire council, the heart that I'm giving right
now it will be a little bit extra, so don't quote this from the council.
		

			The fatwa, as I said, is eight pages long. And I mentioned a number of points, I'm going to
summarize some of these points. And this is especially given the current climate we live in, where
this issue is now being discussed and being brought into cartoons, and our children are being
exposed. This is something that we as adults need to be very, very familiar with and know how we
teach our children. So the first point that I mentioned in this photo, which is something well known
to all of us, the Quran, and history, both teach us that there are two genders. It's not just coming
from the Scripture, it's not just coming from mankind. Common Sense logic, reasoning, history, and
		

			the Quran all tell us that there are two genders. And the Quran tells us that mankind has been
created from two genders and in two genders understand this point, we are created from two genders,
right? So Allah azza wa jal mentions that from a male and female we created all of you so we're
created from two genders. And Allah also says Weber Theremin Hammadi Jordan cathedra. And when he
says, from these two we spread forth multitudes of men and women. And the Quran explicitly says what
they said that Gurukul Onza the male is not like the female and our prophets, Assam said, women are
the complementary halves of men, they're not the same. And Nisa Oh, shakar ecoregional Women are the
		

			complementary halves half of mankind is women, half of mankind is man, the two put together for
mankind, He didn't say they are the same. So we firmly believe that there is such a thing called *
and gender and there is male and female, and that this difference is not just something that is
imaginary or cultural. Because what modern society wants to teach our children is that gender is not
the same as biological *. This is what they're saying that biological * you can be born male or
female, boy or girl, but to be assigned male or female, they say it is from culture, it is from
society. We say no, the fact that there is boy and girl means there is male and female. And that we
		

			admit, and we affirm that the male and female are not the same. And because they are different
physiologically, because they are different from the DNA. You can take a cell from any male or any
female and not ask who the person is and look under a microscope and you will know whether it is
male or female, from the DNA of that cell, from the cell all the way to the body. There are
differences physically, physiologically, hormonally, there are differences in every single level of
existence. And everybody knows this except in this generation. So because there are differences. The
Shetty eye has taken those differences into account. And the shed era has come with gender, not just
		

			with * and sexuality, gender, male and female is not just imaginary. There are roles that are
masculine, there are roles that are feminine, and the entire Shetty from the first chapter of
taharah. All the way to the chapter of inheritance. It is gender specific. You cannot argue that the
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			through every hillclimb or almost I should say are many hillclimb that are the same, but many come
are different. Many, many rulings are different between the male and the female. So we affirm that
there are two genders that these two genders are distinct and separate, and they are equally human.
The one is not more noble than the other. This is our key point here, that both genders are equally
human and noble. And in the eyes of Allah, they both have the same potential to earn Jana, this is
equality, this is real equality, they can get to Jannah the same, how they get to Jana, what their
tasks are, are different, yes, but the potential to get to Jana is the same. And that is ultimate
		

			equality. So this is point number one in the fatwa that we have that there are two genders, and the
two genders are real, and the two genders are not just a social construct or an imaginary cultural
thing. This leads us to point number two, if there are such things as two genders, then there must
be differences between them. These differences, many of them, yes, they are manifested in the
cultural way, how we dress and how we act. But just because they exist in the cultural way doesn't
mean it is only cultural, no, it is filthy, it goes back to how Allah created us. So every society
in all of human history have differences in how women act, how women dress, how men dress, how men
		

			do things, this is a cross and universal. So to claim that this is cultural and not from the fitrah
it goes against the experience of mankind. Therefore point number two, there is something called
masculinity, and there is something called femininity and the Shetty requires the male to act
masculine and the female to act effeminate. If a male goes out of his way to act effeminate, what is
called cross dressing what is called in a transvestite you know, drag queens this type of stuff, if
a male goes out of his way to dress like the female or if the female goes out of her way to dress
like the male by unanimous consensus of all of the muda hip, this is a Kabira a major sin and it is
		

			Allah's Lana upon this person, we have a multiple number of a hadith our Prophet system said that
Allah's Lana is upon the women who imitate to men and Allah's Lana is upon the men who imitate
women. Now somebody says hold on a sec, I cannot grow a beard biologically Hold on a sec, my voice
is effeminate. Naturally, we say we're not talking about what is beyond your control. We're not
talking about what you cannot control. We're talking about you doing something above and beyond you
going out of your way to dress or to act in a manner that or you're forcing on yourself to act like
the opposite gender, we say regardless of what society says, we have our Shetty and our Shetty. I
		

			says, Men should act like men and talk like men and dress like men and women should act like women
and talk like women and dress like women what they said that could occur regardless of what society
says our Shetty has this distinction, again, to make to make it very clear, though, some things are
beyond our control. And yes, sometimes in some cultures, what might be considered masculine is
considered feminine in another culture, small list here, very small list. And it is true, the Shetty
app might look at this small list and say, Okay, in this culture, this thing might be effeminate.
And in this culture, the same thing might be masculine agreed. But that's a small list. You cannot
		

			use this small list to negate the overall reality that men and women act differently dressed
differently and go about their lives in a different manner. And the Shetty app requires not
encourages, requires a biological male to act in the masculine manner and requires a biological
female to act and to dress in the effeminate manner. Now, again, there's a gray area, things might
change a little bit in some aspects, and that's fine. But the fact that there's a little gray area
doesn't change the default, which is men and women act and dress differently. So this is point
number two, point number three from this is that this notion of what is called Gender dysphoria,
		

			what is gender dysphoria, it is what is becoming very common now that some people are saying that I
am a man, I'm born in the body of a man but I'm a woman, or somebody saying, I'm born in the body of
woman, but I'm a man. And so they will then you know, maybe go to the doctor, get surgery done, get
hormones done, prevent that, you know, gender to be manifested, block that gender via hormones, and
maybe even do surgery. So this is called Gender dysphoria. What is gender dysphoria to feel that
your biological * is not your gender. So you're born with the body of a male but somebody says,
Oh, but I feel I should be a woman. We talked about this issue in the fatwa we said per
		

			haps perhaps somebody might feel this way. We're not denying that might be a feeling. But the Shetty
does not penalize and criminalize feelings, the Shetty, I did not come to dictate how Rahman Allah
on what is in the heart, the Sharia has come to dictate actions, not what is in the heart. So if a
person feels a certain thing, maybe that feeling is beyond one's control. So Allah is not going to
punish somebody for a feeling in the heart. And perhaps that is a struggle, and we sympathize with
that struggle. But not every feeling must be acted upon. Not every urge must be manifested. Not
every desire is pure and healthy. And the Sharia has come to teach us what desire is good and what
		

			desire needs to be controlled. We all have desires that are unhealthy. And that Hamdulillah we thank
Allah, if that desire is in the heart and we control it, now you can live for Allah who knifes and
in Lusaka, if you get angry, you want to murder somebody, but you don't, okay? It's not a good
desire to have it, Allah is not going to punish you, right? If you want to punch somebody, but you
don't if you want to back but if you want to steal if you want to take drugs, but you don't, okay,
it's not a healthy desire, but you're not going to be punished for that desire, you've controlled
it, you will be rewarded for that desire, and it is possible you have the urge to do a sin and you
		

			control it, that you are better in the eyes of Allah than the one who never committed the sin, then
the one who never thought of committing the sin. So we have to be careful that we don't penalize or
criminalize the person for a feeling also we said in the fatwa, why do you have to define yourself
based upon the feeling? Why do you have to define yourself that I am such and such based upon the
feeling your feelings don't define you fully? We all have feelings. We have feelings about food,
about clothing about colors, what not what color I like, we don't define ourselves based upon what
color I like, based upon. We don't define ourselves which cuisine I like the best. So why is this
		

			society wanting to define you based upon your sexual urge, based upon your urge to be why it's
actually a problem to make this urge your primary identity, it is one urge out of many, and it's in
your heart. We're not saying it doesn't have to exist, it might be beyond your control, but the
shitty AI has come to curb your desires to control what is healthy and unhealthy and to tell you so
we say a person might actually have gender dysphoria might have in the heart, but the Shetty eye
does not allow us to act upon that. And by fighting that urge, we gain the rewards of Allah just
like fighting any urge that is not healthy, we gain the rewards of Allah. Based upon this. We said
		

			that by unanimous consensus of all of the fifth councils of the world and all of the mainstream
scholars pause here footnote. One famous non Sunni Ayatollah has a photo you should be aware of it
that this is permissible, but in our mainstream Hello sunnah. And our field councils. No scholar has
said this that you can do gender reassignment surgery, we gave the fatwa by unanimous consensus of
our scholars of Islam, it is not allowed to undertake any type of medical procedure that prevents
your normal biological gender from being manifested and tries to persuade or convert to another
gender it is haram. And the Quran forbids this that Allah says that Shavon wants to follow you Allah
		

			you don't know Hulk Allah wants to change the creation of Allah, we said that it is not allowed even
to harm yourself to cut off your hand for no reason. It's not allowed. How about to cut off your
actual you know, Oregon and whatnot, I will do Billa this is what is called Muslim or mutilation.
And it is not allowed, we have to be very clear here. My body is not my body, it is the body of
Allah subhanho wa taala. This is the fundamental difference between liberalism and between Islam.
They say my body my choice, we say no might be your choice, but it's not your body. It's not your
body. It is the body that Allah has given you. But by the way, that is why for example, it is not
		

			allowed to sell your organs. It's not allowed to sell your blood. Why? This is the full QA say,
because you don't own it. You don't own your organs such that you have the right to sell it your
organs. You cannot sell your kidney you can donate if somebody's dying. You can donate few Sabetha
love your brother, a friend or colleague you can donate blood Yeah, but you cannot sell your body
you cannot sell your organ because you don't own it. Allah is your Malik Allah owns you and your
body. So you have no right to transform to mutilate, and it is haram to do so. And especially by the
way these days. Again, to say this gets went into trouble and I know this is gonna get me into
		

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			alarmist data it is what it is. But it is our responsibility to convey the truth that these days
they say that you are transphobic if you don't allow children to express their identity Subhanallah
do some research. Listen to some experts out there, the highest rate of suicide and have the highest
rates of depression that is found in society is found amongst this subcategory of children that have
been forced to undergo medical procedures that changes their gender. They thought they would find
happiness, but they don't find happiness. And now their gender has been changed. They cannot go back
to Oregon has been caught off guard with a biller, or you know, the female's body has been cut off
		

			or whatever, and hormones have been blocked and her whole puberty is gone. Then when she's 25, she
realizes Oh, it was a mistake too late. You can't do this. Our Shetty does not allow this. So we
gave a clear fatwa. It is not allowed because it's not our body. And if the urge exists, we have to
battle that urge. We also said that there is a category that we need to emphasize separately. And
this category is commonly confused by the masses. This category, the medical term for it is
intersex, some called it hermaphrodite intersex individuals, they are less than 1% of mankind, and
they are born with chromosomes that are neither xx nor xy. Okay, this is a medical biological issue,
		

			x x, y x, y, y, they have a number of variations. And these individuals generally speaking, they are
you can't even tell that they're intersex until a test is done. But they have problems conceiving,
right the majority of them they don't even know that there's an issue until they go to the doctor.
These individuals we said the Shetty eye does have a special category for them. But this category is
not the same as trans. It is a mistake to say intersex is trans, no trans and trans. Transsexual is
somebody who imagines I'm a man I want to be a woman. This is up here. intersex individuals their
DNA is different is biology. It's it's actual physical realities that exist now some intersex
		

			individuals, so one out of 100,000 they are born with both organs and this is well known in history.
They're called hermaphrodites. Right? Some very rare individuals. They are born with both organs not
all intersex by the way because intersex is a broad category 1% of mankind is intersex, the bulk of
this 1% is just something in the blood. They don't even know physically, but they cannot have
children or some other issues happen within that 1% also 1% So one out of 100,000 people roughly is
born, we call them hermaphrodite what is a hermaphrodite? Yanni some people are born with
abnormalities they have both organs male and female. But in all of human history, there has never
		

			been a true hermaphrodite ie both organs functioning impossible medically. You have one organ
functioning more than the other you guys get I don't need to get more graphic you get the point
you're right. One organ function is more than the other. There is no such thing in all of human
history of a true hermaphrodite. This category the Shetty eye has a special chapter it is called
Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa and this category Yes, perhaps for them the Sharia has come with a third gender and
in some cultures in Pakistan, India, you know we have these types of people we know they're
different they're born different what not Yanni, perhaps we can give some leeway that for that
		

			category that are born again to be don't misunderstand me, the real hermaphrodite the real hunter,
it's not a state of the mind. It is actually something that is DNA. There are different types of
DNA, that category perhaps we can say a third gender books of fixate, they don't stand with the men
they don't stand with women they stand in the middle, right. If they are not classifiable, by the
way, these days, there should be no hermaphrodite. Why, because we gave this in the fatwa the only
time a surgery would be allowed is not for trans is for hermaphrodite. The only time a surgery would
be allowed is when a child is born with both organs and the doctors will then choose which of the
		

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			productive or more you know being used and so they will then have a surgery to make the child more
one gender into the other. In this case the surgery is recommended not even just allowed it is
recommended, but this is for the hermaphrodite not for the somebody who self identifies as trans
individual. So we have to be careful here that the term junta or intersex which is a chapter and
filk should not be mistaken for the trans category. That is a totally different
		

			category not related to this issue, we also said as a part of this fatwa is that the advice that we
give to those that are struggling with not just, you know, gender dysphoria, but also same *, you
know, issues, which is also becoming common in our times, that we have to be careful. And I've said
this before, I'll say it again, don't fall prey to the ideology that people are telling you your
primary identity is this urge within you know, you are far bigger than this one urge, your humanity
is not defined by an urge in your heart, this label of I am this type of orientation I'm that you
get what I'm saying, right? This label, why are you using it? Why are you defining your entire
		

			humanity based upon an urge of the sexual urge of your gender, you are much more than this much more
noble than this. So even if you have this urge, even if you have the urge that you're attracted to
the same gender, which again, some people have it, it's beyond their control, who said that that is
your primary identity, who said you have to put a label on yourself that I am like this, we say very
clearly, in our study, we don't come out of any closet, you get my point here, right? We don't put a
label on ourselves. If you have an urge that is not healthy. struggle with it, turn to Allah subhana
wa Tada get help discreetly from family and friends, if they will, if they can help you out. But you
		

			don't have to go and be proud about an urge that is not healthy. If somebody's having a problem with
alcohol with drugs. If somebody has an anger problem, they don't define themselves. I am prone to
violence and they put it on their shirt. No, you have to have an urge that you're controlling. Now,
if you need help, and you go to somebody for help, yes, you tell somebody you don't have this issue.
Can you help me out? No problem. But to advertise this and to identify with something that is not
healthy, and something that is not conducive to your morality? Not at all. Our Shetty AI teaches
higher modesty, it teaches cetera which is to cover your faults. You don't go and tell people even
		

			if you're committing the sin, may Allah forgive you don't go and tell other people that is another
sin. Even if you're living in an Hispanic lifestyle and you're doing a major sin. Don't tell me
don't put it on Facebook. Don't advertise because when you do that, you are destroying the center.
The barrier that Allah has placed between you and other people be shameful in front of ALLAH ask for
is to fall May Allah forgive you. But when you open the door of bear higher, no higher and you are
flouting, that you're doing something out on then Rudy villa, you have reached a different level of
depravity. Our Prophet system said Allah forgives all the sins of my ummah, except those who
		

			publicize it. If you feel guilty about a sin, you turn to Allah for forgiveness, you have hope. But
the minute you plow out, the minute you become proud, I am a drug addict and I love being a drug I
was a biller, I would have been if you are a drug addict, if you have a problem with Xena with lewat
with anything between you and Allah, hide it and ask Allah's forgiveness and keep on doing this that
far. But you don't go and tell other people. So we said, there is no such thing as coming out of any
closet as identifying. Now this doesn't mean you don't tell somebody who can help. You know,
sometimes a drug addict needs help, they'll go to family and friends. Sometimes a person with this
		

			urge needs help. So we told now the last part of the hook, or the the factor I said, we said that if
somebody comes to you wanting help, don't shame them. Don't make them feel worse than they already
do have some humanity if they come to you wanting help. And this is a problem that many of us have,
that when we find out somebody is struggling with an urge with a desire, right? Especially this
desire, and they come for help. They don't come to float, they don't come to legitimize. They come
for help. We make them feel even worse, and cut them off and shame them and name them. And this is
absolutely wrong. Absolutely wrong. Our job is to facilitate and bring people closer to Allah not to
		

			turn people away. However, we made a very clear point here, we differentiate Listen to me carefully.
We differentiate between the one who comes to you for help, versus the one who comes to you
justifying and flouting and showing that they're proud in what they're doing. There is a big
difference between the two, the one who comes to you for help, we show them nothing but compassion,
nothing but love, nothing but wanting to help them or whatever we need to do. We'll help them out.
And we welcome them to our massages. Very clear. I say this. If somebody has a private sin, that
only thing they know about they come to you for help you know about that sin. It's none of your
		

			business to go and tell anybody else. You have no right stopping a sinner coming to the masjid.
Where else should it be accepted?
		

			The Masjid You have no right to name and shame somebody who has come to you for help fear Allah azza
wa jal and helped his brother or the sister. However, if somebody comes flouting, somebody comes
justifying, somebody comes saying, Oh, why is it haram it should be allowed and I don't care what
Allah says and openly living the lifestyle, then we don't treat that person the same as the first
person. And we said very clearly in the fatwa that if a community feels if a masjid feels that a
certain individual is spreading this evil ideology in its own community, we have the shutter II and
the constitutional right to stop this person from coming to our Masjid. We said this in the fatwa
		

			because masjids are places of purity. And public filth cannot be displayed in the masjid, privately.
We're all sinners, I'm a sinner, you're a sinner. We don't ask private sins, privately, we come to
Allah, we ask this to fall, but somebody comes he wants to sell drugs outside our door, somebody
comes and we know him to be a mafia, and he's known to be a murderer and killer. We can't allow this
person in our midst. Similarly, somebody comes and he's flouting. I have a partner this and that.
And I don't care what the Quran says. And he's spreading it in our misogyny know, our massages are
safe spaces, and the law of this land. And our Shetty are both tell us, we cannot have such people
		

			come and spread these ideologies. Now final point there wasn't a part of the fatwa. But it needs to
be said as well, because we're mentioning all of these things, okay, for sure. We don't allow such
people to spread evil amongst our massage. What do we do, though? And this is a very difficult
topic, and I cannot answer it fully. But we need to bring up the discussion. What do we do about
individuals, politicians, who might be of our faith, they claim to be of our faith, but they have
views, they have ideas that are clearly an Islamic, they're already elected. They're in Congress,
they're in Senate, they're already there. And they have ideas that are very wrong. Should we boycott
		

			them completely from the Muslim community? Should we cut off from them? Should we have some
relationship? Should we have no relationship? I'm not going to answer this question here. Because
it's not an answer. In two minutes, I will say we need to be mature enough to have an open
conversation about the pros and cons of having any type of relationship with such individuals, we
also need to teach our children very clearly, whatever the situation might be, we need to teach our
children. Muslim politicians are exactly that Muslim politicians. They are not representatives of
Islam. They're representatives of Islam. They are the ruler, man. They are the preachers that are
		

			the teachers, these are the ones that will teach you your values. As for a politician, who happens
to be a Muslim, they're a politician and the end of the day, and they're going to do things and say
things that between them and Allah and we correct them. So we teach our children don't learn your
morality from politicians, don't learn your o'clock and adapt your halal and haram from those in
office. Now, whether the community chooses to invite them to a conference right or not, this is up
for discussion. Every group should weigh the pros and cons. And you know what my humble opinion?
It's healthy to have a diversity here. Some people should be angry, How dare a Muslim do this. And
		

			others should be like, well, at least they're doing something for the community, let's have some
relationship rather than break off from them. But whatever is done, we have to be careful that we
don't make this an issue of the Creator or with a biller that if somebody invites such a politician
that he become a Kaffir. No, let's be Let's calm down a little bit, right? Politicians, they have
good, they have bad, and sometimes a politician might be invited for some good. And even if they're
invited for that good, they're gonna have to warn against the bad and that's what I'm doing right
here. There are politicians in our country, they are very clearly Muslim identifying as Muslim.
		

			Their ideas are wrong when it comes to this issue. And we have to clarify and clear up to our
children to our youth do not learn your o'clock from those people. They might have some good they
might stand up to the AIPAC in the lobby, they might, you know, bring in some issues that are here
for the community go okay, good for them. But they're also because they're politicians saying and
doing things that are absolutely haram when it comes to this issue. So we have to point that out and
teach our children that don't judge Islam based upon them. They are not representatives of Islam,
they are Muslim politicians. And the end of the day with this I conclude, brothers and sisters,
		

			every nation every time every place, it has trials that people are tested with, we as Muslims, we
need to understand one of the biggest trials of our generation is gender and sexuality. If we will
compromise on these issues, there is no faith community left on this earth that will remain firm. To
this. We have no choice but to take on the heat from the public. We have no choice but to take on
what is going to come and point out by the way, there are doublestar
		

			Hundreds I mean, I don't want to go too late. I know. I know I've spoken a lot here, but Subhanallah
Where is liberalism? Liberalism is meant to tolerate, right? Okay. We agree we will tolerate what is
happening in society. We don't have to agree we will tolerate we agree, we are not preaching hatred
of an individual. But why can't you tolerate we teaching our children our morality? It's a two way
street, isn't it? Right? You want us to tolerate hulless. We agree we will tolerate in the sense,
people are doing what they're doing. They're selling alcohol. We're not doing anything. They're, you
know, doing whatever they're doing. We're not stopping them. But you have to tolerate as well. It's
		

			a two way street here. And you're not allowing us to teach our values to our own children. You are
taking away children by the way, in Canada right now. A Christian man was sent to jail and fined by
the government because he refused to allow his 13 year old daughter to undergo surgery. The daughter
went to the hospital, the doctor said, Oh, this is gender reassignment. And the doctor said she must
be done gender reassignment. And the guy said she's only 13 She's not even qualified to drive a car
you're gonna change her gender. He refused. And he was sent to jail by the became a national case.
And he was deprived visiting rights of the daughter and Hollis now he's, you know, out on bail and
		

			whatnot. We're, we're living in very dangerous times. You're gonna stay silent at this villa. So we
have to be brave every one of us yes with wisdom. And we have to be clear. We are not preaching
hatred, much less violence. lecom Dino camellia Deen, you have your way but we have our way too. And
our way is to teach our children what is halal and haram? What is morality? What is Allah? That's
our prerogative. If you want us to tolerate and we are tolerating, you must also tolerate in return
that is the essence of liberalism. But in reality, they are not liberals. They are very liberals the
most bigoted are the Liberals because it's a one way street. You must tolerate us we will not
		

			tolerate you cred we will point out the double standards will point out the hypocrisy and most
importantly, we will remain firm to our commitments in front of Allah and teach our children the
truth, regardless of what society says May Allah subhana wa Tada always allow us to see the truth as
truth and to follow it and to see the benefit as both and to abstain from it, which is our Kamala,
who was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

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