News: Transgender Muslim Kicked out of Women's Section

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Transgender Muslim Told She’s Not Woman Enough to Pray in the Women’s Section

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On Aug. 24, Sumayyah Dawud, a transgender Muslim, uploaded an hourlong video to YouTube in which, her face covered with a full-face niqab veil, she tells the harrowing story of how officials at the Islamic Cultural Center of Tempe, Arizona, told her she needed to dress and pray like a man or provide medical proof that she is an anatomical woman.

The Phoenix New Times, which picked up the story, later provided more documentation about the ordeal. Dawud, who has been legally female since 2011, converted to Islam in 2013. As she recounts in the video, earlier this summer, toward the end of Ramadan, some community members went to the mosque’s board of directors saying they were uncomfortable that she prayed in the women’s section. (During prayers, men and women are separated at most mosques, including at the Tempe ICC.) Dawud provided government identification, which showed she was female, but she was told the board needed medical proof. As humiliating as that sounds, and as degraded as she felt, she acquiesced, providing medical documentation from her primary-care physician. Nedal Fayad, the chairman of the mosque’s board of directors, promised her that the documents would remain confidential, and she believed the question was resolved.

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dannyboy

Islam is so oppressive

YUNGKALIMXEL

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Originally posted by dannyboy

Islam is so oppressive

So are the other two Abrahamic religions.

The Unforgiving

Why am I not surprised? This is depressing.

jonasha

You know some straight guy is going to use this as a way to get into women's bathrooms and stuff.

NewRihannaStan

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Originally posted by jonasha

You know some straight guy is going to use this as a way to get into women's bathrooms and stuff.

Never crossed my mind

Kh-Loud

It's her fault for converting into a religion where they ****ing hate gay/transgenders. Like why the **** would you want to be a part of the community that loathes you ?

LoKoPaNdA

I mean, it's terrible but also expected. She should research into an LGBT friendly mosque

RihannasVeryOwn

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Originally posted by dannyboy

Islam is so oppressive

Shut up.
Anyway, I feel sorry for her, she deserves better than the way they treated her. I'm glad it was resolved though, but the humiliation was unnecessary

Digital

This is the part where I would state my abhorrence but this is their culture and ATRL tells me to be accepting/tolerant of it or else I'm a xenophobe so...

dannyboy

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Originally posted by YUNGKALIMXEL

So are the other two Abrahamic religions.

I don't see female followers of the two other Abrahamic religions being forced to cover up their entire bodies, including their hair, because they're deemed as promiscuous and other ******** if they don't

Dollas n Diamonds

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Originally posted by Kh-Loud

It's her fault for converting into a religion where they ****ing hate gay/transgenders. Like why the **** would you want to be a part of the community that loathes you ?

belief came before acceptance.

this is sad but totally expected and i dont mean that in a bitchy way just literally what i'd expect their procedure to be

Dollas n Diamonds

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Originally posted by dannyboy

I don't see female followers of the two other Abrahamic religions being forced to cover up their entire bodies, including their hair, because they're deemed as promiscuous and other ******** if they don't

thats because they other two religions were smart enough to not take thier holy books entirely literally and research context in which they learned that in the church of Timothy in that time period and culture having your hair uncovered was a symbol of being a sex worker

RihannasVeryOwn

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Originally posted by dannyboy

I don't see female followers of the two other Abrahamic religions being forced to cover up their entire bodies, including their hair, because they're deemed as promiscuous and other ******** if they don't

You clearly don't know ****. How about doing some research before you make yourself look like an idiot on the Internet
No one is forced to wear anything. and no one is deemed promiscuous if they don't wear it. It's a personal choice because religion is personal and it is about your own connection to God.

seanoh

I'm surprised the Imams actually had a meeting and discussed it instead of just banning her outright. It's sad.

seanoh

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Originally posted by dannyboy

I don't see female followers of the two other Abrahamic religions being forced to cover up their entire bodies, including their hair, because they're deemed as promiscuous and other ******** if they don't

This isn't true

IBeMe

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Originally posted by dannyboy

Islam is so oppressive

let's not act like trans girls dont get killed by the dozens in the streets of NYC and the rest of the US every year.
almost anywhere you go trans ppl are oppressed unfortunately.

dannyboy

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Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn

You clearly don't know ****. How about doing some research before you make yourself look like an idiot on the Internet
No one is forced to wear anything. and no one is deemed promiscuous if they don't wear it. It's a personal choice because religion is personal and it is about your own connection to God.

Personal choice? I'm sure. This is why women in the Middle East regularly get stoned and acid thrown at them

The Unforgiving

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Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds

belief came before acceptance.

this is sad but totally expected and i dont mean that in a bitchy way just literally what i'd expect their procedure to be

What's the point then? if what you believe in something or someone that condemns who you are, you just shut up and keep believing?

Khal

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Originally posted by dannyboy

Islam is so oppressive

Like this wouldn't have happened in most churches

Anyways sad, but I can't particularly say I feel bad for her, sorry. What was she expecting from religion in general? You willingly chose to follow a sect that are still behind the times on issues like this, don't be surprised when things like this happen.