A Critical Analysis of the Ruling of Transgender Permissionin Transsexual People

Transgender and its related issues in jurisprudence have long been studied and examined. What needs to be reviewed and carefully considered in this regard, and so far it has not been given the necessary value in terms of jurisprudential research, is to examine the ruling on transgender in people who have sexual dissatisfaction. This complication is considered as a mental and behavioral disorder and its sufferers fall into the category of a certain sex in terms of biological divisions. According to the famous fatwas of the jurists, there is no doubt that it is permissible to change the gender truly and turn a man into a woman and vice versa, as well as to change the gender in non-binary gender people. However, what will be examined in this study through an analytical- descriptive method is a thematic review of transgender in transsexual people, whether or not they are included in the transgender permission ruling. In this article, by referring to the process of identifying the subject and extracting related evidences from fatwas and narrations, the impermissibility of transgender in transsexual people is obtained. However, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose laws - according to Article 4 of the Constitution - must be regulated according to Islamic standards, this practice has been practiced for many years with the permission of the judiciary and their supervision over a significant number of these patients.