The Impact of Cross-Dressing in Disrupting the System

This article studies and explains the reasons for the role of cross-dressing in disturbing the Islamic system and its sub-systems. For the purpose, we referred to the theories and conceptual frameworks provided by some religious thinkers like Allameh Tabatabaei, Shahid Motahari, and Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, and sketched a normative Islamic model for personal, family, and social systems. For explaining the fundamental role of gender and sexual differences in the formation of this normative model, four major concepts of primordial human nature (fitrah), justice, duality, and sexual identity, are introduced by reference to Qur’anic sources. In the end, beside the rational analysis of sexual and gender implications of these systems, we show that cross-dressing introduces disorder into various levels of identity, on one hand, and disrupts the desired religious system and order, on the other. This article uses interpretive-rational method in the sketching of the characteristics of a normative Islamic model. The analysis of the hypotheses and rational explanations were done by rational method and examining it against social theories.