• foxodroid [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      it's a really interesting topic. It's also interesting how misogyny plays a big role in which trans person gets accepted within Muslim cultures. In Tunisia (because it's where i'm from), it's common for courts to accept a FtM transition (therefore allowing them to change identities on documents and such) but *not * MtF. AMAB folk get the worst of it.

      The logic sounds similar to how it's acceptable for women to dress and act masculine, because masculinity is implied to be "an improvement", but not for a man to act and dress fem. That would be a "downgrade". Also it's expected you'll fit right back into the gender binary/roles afterwards anyway and let society forget about it? like quietly pass and we stop hearing about this whole trans business.

      There's a medicalist element to "accepting" transness, because if it's an illness it means it's something you could "cure "and work with Islamically, but that element is absent with homosexuality.