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How a transgender man tries to honor his Muslim faith (I'm so confused!)
LA Times ^ | 7/31/2015 | Garrett Therolf

Posted on 08/01/2015 8:40:43 AM PDT by RightGeek

Born with female anatomy, Alex had recently begun hormone therapy and decided to fully transition to a male identity. And as he entered his second adolescence, he had decided to rededicate himself to a life as a practicing Muslim. On most days, he returned three times a day for prayer.

Alex is aware of media reports that naively heralded Iran as an affirming place for transgender people in the wake of the 1987 decision by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini allowing gender-reassignment surgery. Iran is now the second-largest center for the procedure behind Thailand, according to some estimates.

"Those decisions just allow them to 'fix' people and say that they don't have gay people," Alex says. "It's because they are so conservative, not because they are liberal in any way. They would never allow someone like me: a trans man who is sexually attracted to men and women and trans men and trans women."

Over potato tacos at Gracias Madre, a chic vegan Mexican restaurant in the Mission District, Alex prepared for what he worried might be a hard conversation with his grandmother.

"I think I joked, 'What, you want to be a man?' And when the answer was 'yes,' I understood, because I once did too," Jazmine Bergeron, 60, says.

Jazmine, whose mother was Japanese and father was a French Jew, dated girls in her teens and briefly considered living as a man when she turned 13. Instead, she married a devout Muslim man when she was 19 and gave birth to Alex's mother, Sugako, at 20.

Jazmine went on to become a prominent activist for multiracial Asian lesbians in San Francisco...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; muslim; queers; transgender
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Lots of little clips since it is the LA Times. You have to read this to believe it.
1 posted on 08/01/2015 8:40:43 AM PDT by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek

Relax. They just want everyone to be as confused as they are.


2 posted on 08/01/2015 8:43:24 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: RightGeek

I’ll pass


3 posted on 08/01/2015 8:43:51 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: RightGeek

Nothing but a very strong earthquake would solve the problems detailed in this article. And the sooner the better!


4 posted on 08/01/2015 8:45:28 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: RightGeek
"...decided to fully transition to a male identity.

So he's figured out some way to get rid of that pesky "Y" chromosome? Interesting.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

5 posted on 08/01/2015 8:46:01 AM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: madprof98
+10,000%.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

6 posted on 08/01/2015 8:47:30 AM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: RightGeek

Being unable or unwilling to accept the reality of your biology is a mental disorder.

So is Islam.

This guy got the doube whammy.


7 posted on 08/01/2015 8:51:12 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RightGeek
How a transgender man tries to honor his Muslim faith

What!? ANOTHER Obama auto-biography???

8 posted on 08/01/2015 8:51:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: RightGeek
Basic Education for liberals:

Males have XY chromosomes.

Females have XX chromosomes.

The person your story talks about is a female, no matter how many body parts she adds or distorts or cuts off or how many chemicals she injects into her body.

Period.

Full stop.

End of story.

For a society that somehow thinks of itself as educated and scientific, we sure have found a way to pervert PERCEPTION over REALITY.

9 posted on 08/01/2015 8:53:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: RightGeek

When he says “my Muslim faith,” does the interviewer whisper “your Christian faith?”


10 posted on 08/01/2015 8:54:07 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: RightGeek

ridiculous.

We need to bring back asylums for these leftists


11 posted on 08/01/2015 8:54:41 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: RightGeek; a fool in paradise

Future suicide glitter bomber.


12 posted on 08/01/2015 8:55:08 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: RightGeek

Is he attracted to goats and camels too?


13 posted on 08/01/2015 8:55:51 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Absolutely It was the goal of Fichte and the German “Kill God” group to destroy Reason and Logic in children (1810) to make them so irrational they would believe “snow is black”.

It is because Marxism’s utopia is utterly irrational-—so to implant that socialistic slave culture, all people have to be so dumb they believe that Slavery is Freedom. (We see it with the obamaphone lady——it is what public schools are designed to pump out).

We have half of America believing that there is a Natural Right to kill their own genetic offspring and a Natural Right to sodomize others and that a marriage can be between two males who sodomize each other.

Total irrationality of masses who have been programmed in a Prussian group think factory-—artificial environment removed from the Natural Family (Truth/God’s Design)-—exactly as Fichte stated was necessary for the Marxist utopia.


14 posted on 08/01/2015 8:58:25 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: RightGeek
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15 posted on 08/01/2015 8:58:28 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: wku man

Other way around, in this case. She would have to acquire Y chromosomes to become male. Which is beyond medical science at this time.


16 posted on 08/01/2015 9:04:39 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: RightGeek
transmogrified...

17 posted on 08/01/2015 9:10:36 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: FreedomPoster
Yeah, I caught that as soon as I posted. Gotta love that reading comprehension thing.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

18 posted on 08/01/2015 9:17:41 AM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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So he’s figured out some way to get rid of that pesky “Y” chromosome? Interesting.........


Actually it is the opposite. She/he wants to turn her/his ‘extra X chromosome’ into a Y chromosome. Can’t be done, of course.

Actually is I were a female in the Muslim faith, perhaps I too would consider transitioning into a male. No future on being a female in that ideology, only looked upon as a slave or an animal.


19 posted on 08/01/2015 9:19:22 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: RightGeek

How many ways can a screwed up individual be screwed up?


20 posted on 08/01/2015 9:23:38 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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