What does Islam say about Gender Dysphoria? | Mufti Abu Layth

of course of course what does Islam say about gender dysphoria if diagnosed can one undergo a gender transformation you see I want to speak about this let me there people all right let me loosen up right gender dysphoria right so look gender dysphoria is when a person is confused about their gender or they feel they are the other gender nowadays we get confused how many genders are they I

was like are they still two are we still running on two worries they like s tempers and what's going on what do we you see so people like as a man you say I want to be I'm actually a woman trapped inside a man's body Oh as a woman you go one day mmm I'm actually a man assault on Rio trapped inside a woman's body and I think you see there are multiple issues to be tackled here one issue is that like first of all

where these cases are legitimate biological concerns I believe that there is permissibility where there are legitimate biological concerns and the medical experts can have their input and say what those issues on the person can have their own introspective analysis and I feel Islam does it has a catering element for that I do believe that but I want to come to some other very important points here you see I think part of this new age people are creating unnecessary confusion

I understand look if somebody is gay let them be that's their life it's their choice and nobody has the right to persecute them I support that I believe that okay now but the back of all of this there's this push to kind of enable confusion that oh are you really a boy are you really a girl you can be a girl if you want young oh you you can be a woman you can be just putting unnecessary doubt into people children they want to put doubt

into children I think that is bang out of order I am honestly firmly against creating doubt for children that I think that is a form of abuse I think it's good to add this level what you should say to children is look when you're discussing things like let's say gender roles or sorry like relationships you could say look husband wife like they teach children like my young daughter is 4 4 years old and she's she knows the concept husband wife she knows these things she's seen it on TV she see now let's say in real life she see me she's

been told about our school now to say look this is how it happens by the way some people might get married if they want to and they haven't done this in at her school but if they wanted to say look some people get married even men some men get married and some women get married to themselves I think that's fine I've got personally no problem if they want to say that you can say that look that if they do that that's fine some men and men get married some women and women get married but generally you have this husband wife scenario right okay that I'm some Muslims are against that I'm not I think that's fine

homosexual people do exist in societies and there's no harm in in creating creating an awareness about that but what is wrong is to kind of say to these children that oh just because you look like a girl doesn't mean you're a girl do you want to be a boy you know do you feel you're a boy you can be a boy if you want to be a boy you know or saying to a boy oh just because you look like a boy doesn't mean you do you want do you want to be a girl do you want a girl's name I heard I I was seriously so shocked if this be true I heard there was a school that said as a mandatory task

that you have to write on Valentine's Day a letter to a love letter to the Sun a friend of the same gender if that be true that is disgusting that is abuse you can't do these kind of things you can't say you have to write a lovely you can't a look it write a lovely even if it's to the same gender that's your choice but you can't say write a lot everybody today's exercise we're going to everybody is going to be gay and we're going to write a letter to you that you can't be forcing these kind of things on children and confusing them

or telling them things like this creating doubts so that's something I think that needs to be tackled so I agree with this I I'm against that kind of that intensity of confusion another thing I want to pick up on here okay is you know in this day and age people I don't know what it is look I'm all up for women's rights I always support women's rights as much as I can I've always been about empowering women wherever they need to be empowered I feel that Islam empowers them I've always spoken out for equal rights

Islamically that whether it's going to be in the will whether it's going to be in terms of inheritance I've spoken I've given the kind of diversity the different opinions whether it's on things like that abuse is unacceptable under all circumstances that so on so I spoken out and I continue to do that because I believe in that okay that said I seriously do not understand the problem of this age against masculinity people seem to there seems to be this hatred against men being men

and I don't know what that is about like why do you why do people hate on men like they call it toxic masculinity why is it toxic like if you ask me what is the one of the most attractive features of women obviously apart from I could obviously list out all the other side wait here's images obviously apart from like all men you could list all the physical attributes I'm sure but one of the most major attractive features for me as a

person in a woman is femininity most I'm assuming most men if not all men are so overwhelmingly attracted to femininity like they just are like without they just program we're just obviously programmed to the physical features as well but we're programmed to be attracted to and I'm assuming it must be vice versa I'm assuming I'm assuming and some reports show that even these very you know man-hating feminists kind of women are still attracted to men like that that are very kind of masculine but

I don't look whether you like it or don't like it that's up T I'm not saying everybody has to be very kind of macho or they have to be like that everybody can just be their natural selves but why hate on masculinity like why hate on it what's wrong with a man being a man should be a man for God's sake you know not a half an excuse for like I don't get that like and people are like or what men should be always kind of soft and should be kind of like a feminine and look if you're naturally like that

fine I've got nope you know I've got no problem with if you're naturally all kind of soft and how and very kind of effeminate just stop just don't hang around don't hang around the gym changing rooms don't end up in prison and whatever you do don't go to madrasah be aware of that Trinity no but I'm saying look if you if you if a person is naturally like that that's fine but what is this push on hating on men who are masculine like oh

this is you know Oh like men okay they say but why do men have to like like I say men like this kind of persona of being tough or being kind of like strong or being or they have that kind of macho they they look up to that macho thing oh that's wrong this evil why is it evil why that's but that's men don't say all but men should cry more they should be more in touch with look I'm not saying that you shouldn't be in touch with yourself and true some men many men find it difficult to express their emotions sometimes and I'm all for encouraging people to do that you know trying to be but you don't need to say like oh let's

everybody should just be like all kind of honestly the more every time I read this it's like I see online so much and I see American kind of like movements very strong in this you know I see a lot of American social media that is pushing all this old toxic masculinity toxic masculinity toxic masculinity and I feel like we're like a dying breed thought of the main I'm not men anymore they just

like just half an excuse for one so so I don't know man like yeah like very camp you gotta be camp to be like a man now you know this should be gender fluidity you know it doesn't really make a difference and it's like get out of here man I'm sure that women must find real men attractive not like like I mean like they must do because if men find that femininity attractive then it must be by the laws of nature vice versa I don't buy that they find this camp nestled very attractive I mean maybe they do but I find it very difficult to believe but

uh I just think look if you're naturally like that fine but stop hating on men but yes condemned abuse wherever it happens can the deprivation of Rights and things like this I'm all with you and I support you wholeheartedly but yeah that's my so what if somebody said what is a real man would choose Esau boy don't worry yo what is a don't worry Ibrahim you'll find out just go to mother esada they'll introduce you to a

few real I'm joking and joke it's a joking I'm the joking right