Editing LGBTQ people and Islam (section)

====Transgender====
[[File:Hijra Protest Islamabad.jpg|thumb|200px|A group of ''[[Hijra (South Asia)|hijras]]'' and transgender people protest in [[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]].]]
In the late 1980s, Mufti [[Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy]] of [[Egypt]] issued a ''[[fatwa]]'' supporting the right for those who fit the description of ''mukhannathun'' and ''mukhannathin'' to have [[sex reassignment surgery]]; [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] of [[Iran]] issued similar ''fatwas'' around the same time.<ref name="TransgenderHealth 2020"/><ref name="Transgenderism 2017"/> Khomeini's initial ''fatwa'' concerned [[intersex]] individuals as well, but he later specified that [[sex reassignment surgery]] was also permissible in the case of transgender individuals.<ref name="TransgenderHealth 2020"/><ref name="Transgenderism 2017"/> Because [[LGBT rights in Iran|homosexuality is illegal in Iran]] but [[transgender|gender transition]] is legal, some gay individuals have been forced to undergo sex reassignment surgery and transition into the opposite sex, regardless of their actual gender identity.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hamedani |first=Ali |date=5 November 2014 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690 |title=The gay people pushed to change their gender |work=[[BBC Persian]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106224035/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690 |archive-date=6 November 2014 |access-date=16 July 2021}}</ref>

While Iran has outlawed homosexuality, Iranian thinkers such as Ayatollah Khomeini have allowed for transgender people to change their sex so that they can enter heterosexual relationships.<ref name="TransgenderHealth 2020"/><ref name="Transgenderism 2017"/> Iran is the only<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bagri |first1=Neha Thirani |date=19 April 2017 |title=In Iran, there's only one way to survive as a transgender person |url=https://qz.com/889548/everyone-treated-me-like-a-saint-in-iran-theres-only-one-way-to-survive-as-a-transgender-person/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121051859/https://qz.com/889548/everyone-treated-me-like-a-saint-in-iran-theres-only-one-way-to-survive-as-a-transgender-person/ |archive-date=21 January 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022 |website=Quartz |language=en}}</ref> Muslim-majority country in the Persian Gulf region that allows transgender people to express themselves by recognizing their self-identified gender and subsidizing reassignment surgery. Despite this, those who do not commit to reassignment surgery are not accepted to be trans.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bagri |first=Neha Thirani |date=19 April 2017 |title=In Iran, there's only one way to survive as a transgender person |url=https://qz.com/889548/everyone-treated-me-like-a-saint-in-iran-theres-only-one-way-to-survive-as-a-transgender-person/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121051859/https://qz.com/889548/everyone-treated-me-like-a-saint-in-iran-theres-only-one-way-to-survive-as-a-transgender-person/ |archive-date=21 January 2022 |access-date=6 November 2019 |website=Quartz |language=en}}</ref> The government even provides up to half the cost for those needing financial assistance and a sex change is recognized on the birth certificate.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barford |first=Vanessa |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7259057.stm |title=Iran's 'diagnosed transsexuals' |work=BBC News |date=25 February 2008 |access-date=24 July 2010 |archive-date=15 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315170427/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7259057.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In [[Pakistan]], transgender people make up 0.005 percent of the total population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/356130/transgenders-in-pakistan-challenges-and-prospects/|title=Transgenders in Pakistan; challenges and prospects|date=18 February 2019|website=Daily Times|language=en-US|access-date=4 November 2019|archive-date=4 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104194411/https://dailytimes.com.pk/356130/transgenders-in-pakistan-challenges-and-prospects/|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously, transgender people were isolated from society and had no legal rights or protections. They also suffered discrimination in healthcare services. For example, in 2016 a transgender individual died in a hospital while doctors were trying to decide which ward the patient should be placed in. Transgender people also faced discrimination in finding employment resulting from incorrect identity cards and incongruous legal status. Many were forced into poverty, dancing, singing, and begging on the streets to scrape by. On 26 June 2016, clerics affiliated to the [[Pakistan]]-based organization Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat issued a [[fatwa]] on transgender people where a trans woman (born male) with [[transgender marriage|"visible signs of being a woman" is allowed to marry a man]], and a trans man (born female) with "visible signs of being a man" is allowed to marry a woman. Pakistani transgender persons can also change their (legal) sex. Muslim ritual funerals also apply. Depriving transgender people of their inheritance, humiliating, insulting or teasing them were also declared [[haraam]].<ref>{{cite news |date=27 June 2016 |title=Clerics issue fatwa allowing transgender marriage in Pakistan |publisher=Samaa Web Desk |url=http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2016/06/clerics-issue-fatwa-allowing-transgender-marriage-in-pakistan/ |url-status=live |access-date=2 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628213611/http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2016/06/clerics-issue-fatwa-allowing-transgender-marriage-in-pakistan/ |archive-date=28 June 2016}}</ref> In May 2018, the Pakistani parliament passed a bill giving transgender individuals the right to choose their legal sex and correct their official documents, such as ID cards, driver licenses, and passports.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/09/609700652/pakistan-passes-historic-transgender-rights-bill|title=Pakistan Passes Historic Transgender Rights Bill|newspaper=NPR|date=9 May 2018|language=en|access-date=4 November 2019|last1=Ingber|first1=Sasha|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918174933/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/09/609700652/pakistan-passes-historic-transgender-rights-bill|url-status=live}}</ref> Today, transgender people in Pakistan have the right to vote and to search for a job free from discrimination. As of 2018, one transgender woman became a news anchor, and two others were appointed as Supreme Court clerks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/356130/transgenders-in-pakistan-challenges-and-prospects/|title=Transgenders in Pakistan; challenges and prospects|date=18 February 2019|website=Daily Times|language=en-US|access-date=5 November 2019|archive-date=4 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104194411/https://dailytimes.com.pk/356130/transgenders-in-pakistan-challenges-and-prospects/|url-status=live}}</ref>