Ishak Mohd Shuhaimi Bin Haji, Haneef Sayed Sikandar Shah
Department of General Studies, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
J Relig Health. 2014 Apr;53(2):520-37. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9656-z.
The birth of people with confused or ambiguous sex makeup as a biological fact since the annals of history has posed the challenge of accommodating them within the binary gender of sociocultural systems. In this process, the role of religion as a defining factor in social engineering has been paramount. Major religions, such as Islam and Christianity, have addressed this issue within the frame of their God-ordained laws by devising a set of moral and legal imperatives specific to the "third gender." Modern developments in medicine and biology, however, have made sex reassignment possible for this category of people, today called transsexuals. The question is: How do Islam and Christianity respond to it. After presenting an analytical view of both Muslim scholars and Christian religious authorities on the legitimacy of sex reassignment for transsexuals, this paper attempts to explore if such a dilemma can be resolved.
自古以来，具有混淆或模糊性征的人的出生作为一个生物学事实，给将他们纳入社会文化系统的二元性别体系带来了挑战。在这个过程中，宗教作为社会工程中的一个决定性因素，其作用至关重要。伊斯兰教和基督教等主要宗教，通过制定一套专门针对“第三性别”的道德和法律规定，在其上帝制定的法律框架内处理了这个问题。然而，医学和生物学的现代发展使得这类如今被称为变性者的人能够进行性别重新分配。问题是：伊斯兰教和基督教对此作何回应？在呈现了穆斯林学者和基督教宗教权威对变性者性别重新分配合法性的分析观点之后，本文试图探讨这样一个困境是否能够得到解决。
