{"id":35187,"date":"2016-06-29T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35187"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:00:34","slug":"pakistani-religious-law-authorities-announce-support-for-some-transgender-marriages-and-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/pakistani-religious-law-authorities-announce-support-for-some-transgender-marriages-and-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani religious law authorities announce support for (some) transgender marriages and civil rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/27\/pakistani-clerics-declare-transgender-marriages-legal-in-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Zubair Khan and Andrew Marszal<\/a> report on a somewhat surprisingly liberal announcement on the part of a group of Islamic religious leaders:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty top Pakistani clerics have issued a religious decree declaring that transgender people have full marriage, inheritance and funeral rights under Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p>The fatwa stated that a female-born transgender person having &#8220;visible signs of being a male&#8221; may marry a woman or a male-born transgender with &#8220;visible signs of being a female\u201d, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>However, it ruled that a transgender person carrying &#8220;visible signs of both genders&#8221; &#8211; or intersex &#8211; may not marry anyone.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently impossible for transgenders to marry in Pakistan, where gay marriage remains punishable by life imprisonment, and no \u201cthird gender\u201d is recognised on official identity cards.<\/p>\n<p>The new fatwa also declared that any act intended to &#8220;humiliate, insult or tease&#8221; the community was \u201charaam\u201d (sinful), and that transgender persons should not be deprived of family inheritances, nor the right to be buried in Muslim ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Zia Ul Haq Naqshbandi, the Lahore-based head of the Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat religious law organisation that issued the fatwa, said parents who deprived their transgender sons or daughters of inheritances were &#8220;inviting the wrath of God\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat is not a political organisation, and its fatwas are not legally binding. But the group wields influence thanks to its tens of thousands of followers across Pakistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Telegraph, Mohammad Zubair Khan and Andrew Marszal report on a somewhat surprisingly liberal announcement on the part of a group of Islamic religious leaders: Fifty top Pakistani clerics have issued a religious decree declaring that transgender people have full marriage, inheritance and funeral rights under Islamic law. The fatwa stated that a female-born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[47,196,397,190],"class_list":["post-35187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-religion","tag-islam","tag-lgbt","tag-pakistan","tag-samesexmarriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-99x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35188,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions\/35188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}