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lgbtqiamuslimpedia · 11 months

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Maryam Khatoon Molkara

DOB :1950

Known for :Iran's first Trans muslim woman who successfully change her gender legally.

Occupation :Trans Activist,Rights Advocate

Spouce :Mohammad

Religion :Islam

Gender :Woman

Sexuality :Straight

Ethnicity :Persian

Death :2012

Maryam Khatoon Molkara (also known as Maryam Khatoonpour Molkara) was a campaigner for trans rights in Iran, where she is widely recognized as a matriarch of the transgender community.She was later instrumental in obtaining a letter which acted as a Fatwa enabling sex reassignment surgery to exist as part of a legal framework.

Early life

Maryam Khatoon Molkara was born in 1950, she was the only child of her father's second of eight wives.Her father was a landowner. Maryam says she always preferred clothes, toys, & activities that were traditionally for girls.In her adolescence, Maryam went to parties dressed as a woman.She was often tortured & bullied for her feminine behavior. When she came out to her mother,her mother refused to accept Maryam's gender identity.This made her decide to take feminizing hormone, instead of immediately seeking out a gender affirming surgery.

Legal Recognition of Gender Identity in Iran

In 1975, Molkara traveled to London where she “learned about transsexuality & realized that she was not a passive homosexual. Molkara started to write letters to Shia Cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq, asking for religious advice about being assigned the wrong gender at birth.In one of these letters, she said that her gender identity had been clear since she was two years old, as she used to apply chalk to her face to imitate putting on make-up. Khomeini had already written in 1963 that corrective surgeries for intersex people are not against Islamic law, & his answer was based on this existing idea rather than developing a new fatwa for transgender people.He suggested she live as a woman, which included dressing as one.

After this, she met with Farah Pahlavi, who gave her support towards Molkara and other transgender individuals wanting sex reassignment surgery.In 1978, she traveled to Paris, where Khomeini was then based, to try to make him aware about transgender rights.After the Islamic Revolution, Molkara started to face intense backlash due to her gender identity. She underwent arrests, and death threats. She was fired from her job at the Iranian National Radio and Television, forced to wear masculine clothing,injected with male hormones against her will, & detained in a psychiatric institution. Eventually she was released from jail because of her good contacts with religious leaders, such as Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Molkara continued to campaign for her right to get gender-affirming surgery. In 1985, she confronted Khomeini in his home in North Tehran.She wore a man's suit, carried the Quran, and she tied shoes around her neck. This was a reference to the Ashura festival, and also indicated that she was looking for refuge.Maryam Khatoon Molkara was held back and beaten by homophobic security guards until Khomeini's brother Hassan Pasandide intervened.He took Molkara into his house, where she pleaded her case, yelling "I'm a woman, I'm a woman!" His security guards were suspicious about her chest, as they thought she could be carrying explosives.She revealed they were her breasts, as she developed them using hormone therapy.After listening her story, Ahmad Khomeini was touched & took Maryam to speak to his father, where he asked 3 of his doctors about the surgery in an attempt to make a well-informed decision.Khomeini then decided to permit sex reassignment surgery by issuing a fatwa.She left Khomeini’s house victoriously. She had a letter in her hand addressed to the Chief Prosecutor & the head of Medical Ethics giving a fatwa (a religious authorization) for her & for all those like her to have their gender surgically reassigned. That one daring step by Maryam changed the dynamics and made history in Shia Islam.

Maryam lobbied for the according medical knowledge & procedures to be implemented in Iran, and worked on helping other trans people have access to gender-affirmative surgeries.

However, Maryam completed her gender affirming surgery from Thailand in 1997, due to "unhappiness with procedures in her native country''.The Iranian govt paid for her surgery, and she was able to help establish government funding for many other trans individual's surgeries.

Trans Rights Adocacy

Maryam was a prominent advocate for trans rights & gender affirmative care.Maryam started her activism in Iran during the early days of the Islamic revolution.

In 2007, she founded and subsequently ran the Iranian Society to Support Individuals with Gender Identity Disorder (Persian: حمایت از بیماران مبتلا به اختلالات هویت جنسی ایران).This was the first state-approved transgender organization in Iran.Before this, she used her own property in Karaj to help other trans people receive legal advice & medical care, including post-op care.She continued her fight to advance the situation of transgender people in Iran.She also helped many incarcerated trans people in Iran.

Marriage

Maryam got married in a traditional Islamic way (nikah) to a government officer named Mohammad, in Tehran.

Death

Maryam Khatoon Molkara died in 2012, after suffering from a heart attack at the age of 62.

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original-username42 · 4 months

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I'm so sick of queer spaces being so heavily anti religion to a comical degree. We always preach intersectionality or to look at nuance but then when religion is brought up it's all black and white "hur dur religion bad, you're bad because religion all religious people are going out in the streets murdering trans people and eating gay babies" like do none of us see the irony here? I'm trans, bi and religious and I've gotten hate for it but since I'm a pagan I get less hate than I've seen trans Christians or Muslims get. Not everyone who is religious is bigoted, not every religious person is the strawman in your head. Religion is not inherently bigoted, most of the time the stuff actual bigoted religious people use as justification for bigotry is mistranslations or blatantly wrong interpretations of religious texts. I'm not trying to convert anyone to any religion I'm just begging other queer folk to stop being hypocrites and to stop harassing other queer people for being religious

#religion #trans #LGBTQ #LGBT #pagan #Christian #islam #Muslim #bisexual #bi #transgender

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mlmxreader · 19 days

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lesbian Muslims are fantastic.

gay Muslims are brilliant.

bisexual Muslims are wonderful.

pansexual Muslims are amazing.

omnisexual Muslims are lovely.

aromantic Muslims are marvellous.

asexual Muslims are spectacular.

transgender Muslims are phenomenal.

nonbinary Muslims are sensational.

Poly Muslims are stupendous.

queer Muslims are outstanding.

queer & lgbtqia+ Muslims are sublime.

you are important, valued, cherished, treasured. you are loved and deserve to be loved in return (however that looks for you & if you wish to be!). you are ENOUGH, and you are doing amazing.

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surrenderhate · 1 month

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#sissy muslimah #transgender #islamification #islam is winning

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seraphic-sapphic-safehaven · 1 year

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🌙 Ramadan Mubarak to all queer Muslims out there!! ⭐️

#ramadan 2023 #ramadan #lgbtq positivity #queer positivity #queer #trans #transgender #muslim #islam #lgbtq+#trans positivity #my posts #religion #religious holidays

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url0cal-weird0 · 3 months

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this post goes out to all the closeted or "different" or "weird" Muslims.

The "haram" Muslims The queer Muslims.

The Muslims who have to take off their hijab before going home after school/work in fear of being harassed by family.

The transmasc Muslims who wear a hijab, whether you still see it as part of your identity, you're forced to wear it, or any other reason.

The transfem Muslims who want to wear a hijab but dont, whether its because you don't want to, or you're forced not to, or any other reason.

The Muslims who can't pray because family doesn't know and if they say you you'd be harassed.

The polytheistic Muslims, who are also pagan, or hindu, or any other polytheistic religion and Muslim.

The Muslims who still kiss their unmarried partners, or hug people of the opposite gender because you're friends (sorry if you can, I'm new to Islam so I'm just going off what I've heard)

The disabled Muslims, who miss prayers because you don't have energy, or can't learn Arabic because of brain fog or any other reason so you have to say prayers in your own language, or forget to do prayers, or any other reason.

The therian Muslims who don't feel like they ever fit in.

The Muslims who forget they're fasting during Ramadan and accidentally break their fast (32 days, it'll be my first Ramadan, I can't wait!!)

The Muslims who can't fast because their family doesn't know

The Muslims who can't fast because they're pregnant, or disabled, or any other reason.

The Muslims who can't dress modestly because they don't have modest clothes and if they asked their family for modest clothes they'd be questioned.

The Muslims who feel like they can't be Muslim because of their race, or skin color.

The Muslims who feel like they can't be Muslims because of their past.

The system Muslims who feel bad for letting non-Muslims front.

The system Muslims in general

This goes out to all "different" or closeted Muslims. I love you. I see you. I am you.

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queerism1969 · 2 months

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hole34 · 9 days

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i can’t seem to find any humanized fanart of the spa ponies for mlp, so here’s my own concept

not great art i know but the concept is still there, feel free to do with this what you will if you are an actual artist or perhaps even [**RESPECTFUL**] brony

will reblog if i ever do the other spa pony idk

#art #mlp #my little pony #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp g4 #spa ponies #spy pony #artists on tumblr #but like barely #i am not an artist #transgender #islam #yippee #isnt she cool

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mysharona1987 · 2 years

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pbscore · 5 months

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I’m curious to hear experiences from queer/trans Muslim reverts! I’ve been wanting to get a better understanding of other religious experiences for queer/trans people specifically because I feel that right now, they are important stories to share culturally and spiritually in a time of unrest. 🕊️

#pbscore #ok to interact #queer #lgbt #lgbt muslim #queer muslim #trans #transgender #trans muslimah #trans muslim #revert #islam #gay #gay muslim

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factoidfactory · 1 year

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Random Fact #6,493

"The god of Christians, Jews, and Muslims made only two genders" is not a sound claim even if we were to assume for the sake of argument that God exists and created genders.

Israelite society had several genders, not just two.

Ay’lonit [איילונית]

A person who is identified as “woman” at birth but develops “man” characteristics at puberty and is infertile.

There are 80 references to this gender in the Mishna and Talmud and 40 in the classical midrash and Jewish law codes.

Androgynos [אנדרוגינוס] (Ancient Israel, from at least 1st century CE to 16th century CE)

A person who has both “male” and “female” sexual characteristics.

There are 149 references to the gender in the Mishna and Talmud and a whopping 350 mentions in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.

Saris [סריס:] (Ancient Israel)

A person who is identified as a “man” at birth but develops “woman” characteristics at puberty and/or is lacking a penis.

A saris can be “naturally” a saris (saris hamah), or become one through human intervention (saris adam).

There are 156 references to this gender in mishna and the Talmud and 379 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.

Tumtum [טומטום] (Ancient Israel)

A person whose sexual characteristics are indeterminate or obscured.

According to Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Mada, Avoda Zara, 12, 4 Tumtum is not a separate gender exactly, but rather a state of doubt about what gender a person is (kind of like a Schrödinger’s gender?).

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supercom-pute-r · 11 days

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Lately, i've been really considering the idea of starting to use a veil. I'm not particularly religious or anything (i do belive in god and i do admire Jesus; not to mention my huge interest in faith and religion); i'm not muslim, nor jewish, not catholic, nor a pagan, nothing; but i do like modesty in myself and i really like how veils looks.

The things is that i don't want to disrespect anyone from any religion or faith, so i tried to look for information about different types of veiling (so i can be respectful about it), but all the info that came up is about wedding veils!!! And i don't really know where to look. I tried searching in reddit, but there isn't one specific subreddit about veiling in general (though there is a modesty one that i'll be seeing).

My other problem is also surrounding the fact that i'm not a particularly feminine person (i'm rather androgynous, or i like to think so), so i was also wondering if there were any masc or androgynous types of veiling, though i wouldn't mind using feminine ones.

I guess my objective with this post is to see if there is any person out there who could provide me with information about different types of veiling!! I would really appreciate it :)))

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surrenderhate · 2 months

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#White bois #transgender #islamized sissy #sissy muslimah #feminized and islamized

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gaygayhomesexualgay · 7 months

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"religious trauma isnt that bad" i literally have problems listeting to "arabian nights" bc ever since someone pointed out that the lyric "suns from the west" was about the islamic day of judgement it has brought me anxiety

#religious trauma #homophobia #queerphobia #lgbtq issues #lgbtq #transgender #lgbt pride #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #trans pride #trans rights #gay #trans issues #islam #no hate to islam #its the fucking fetrah kids #istg

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mlmxreader · 2 years

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trans Muslims: you are so, so, so important, you are deserving of love, respect, dignity, kindness and I hope you have a wonderful day.

trans Jews: you are so, so, so important, you are deserving of love, respect, dignity, kindness and I hope you have an amazing day.

I wish every trans Jew and every trans Muslim gender euphoria today as well as their favourite snacks. 💚

#transgender #trans #islam #judaism #muslims #jews #queer #queer positivity #im sick of seeing Muslims and Jews either put down #or erased from positivity posts

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secular-jew · 3 months

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Latest Palestinian violence in the West, this time, at a Houston Texas mega-church.

"FREE PALESTINE!" Latest pro-Palestinian violence in the West, this time, at a Houston Texas mega-church. The perp? A trans male, born Genesse Ivonne Moreno (said to be tween 30-35 yrs old), but more recently, known as Jeffrey Escalanta. He/She wore a trench coat and a backpack. He/She is another in a long line of violent illegal aliens. She/He had a lengthy criminal record including in August 2009 (for which she was sentenced to 180 days in Harris County Jail), a May 2010 charge for forgery, for which she was sentenced to two days in Harris County Jail for trying to use a counterfeit $100 bill; a Nov. 2010 charge for theft, for which she was sentenced to 30 days in Harris County Jail for stealing hats and makeup; a Dec. 2010 charge for evading arrest, for which she was sentenced to 75 days in Harris County Jail; was put under an emergency detention order in 2016 by Houston police, and a June 2022 charge for unlawful carrying of a weapon, which is still an active case. She had also been diagnosed with schizophrenia. She/He had been committed to mental institutions, involuntarily, at least four times. He/She had "Free Palestine" emblazoned on her high-caliber firearm. In the first 24 hours of the investigation into motive, authorities have already recovered "anti-Semitic writings." He/She brought her toddler to the shootout. Both were killed. She entered and started shooting without saying anything except that she claimed to also have a bomb.

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