The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia

Intersex being a birth impairment in human babies is a fact of human precreation. Opposed to normal birth of humans as males and females incidents of babies with vague gender identity have perturbed people and families as to how to socially place them within the binary system of men and women in the...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Badrol, Muhammad Afif, Awang, Abdul Bari, Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah, Zainuddin, Ani Amelia
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Subjects:	KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
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spelling	iium-638072019-01-17T04:26:39Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63807/ The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia Mohd Badrol, Muhammad Afif Awang, Abdul Bari Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Zainuddin, Ani Amelia KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim Intersex being a birth impairment in human babies is a fact of human precreation. Opposed to normal birth of humans as males and females incidents of babies with vague gender identity have perturbed people and families as to how to socially place them within the binary system of men and women in the community. In Islam, it is more important in view of the gendered orientation of some Islamic laws and its system of social ethics. Accordingly, jurists formulated an Islamic blueprint to manage this segment. However, their main criteria to align such individuals to one of the normal genders were inadequate to assign a specific sex to all intersex. Medical science, on the other hand, proposes not only to achieve precise diagnoses of intersex conditions but also to manage them medically. Accordingly, Muslim jurists and muftis by and large celebrated this medical solution as a better remedy to resolve this juridical perplexing question. This study, however, argues that juristic stamp of approval needs to be more ethically grounded so as to avoid pitfalls inherent in this medical innovation. IIUM Press 2018-06-13 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63807/2/Acceptance%20Letter%20-%20Intellectual%20Discourse.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63807/9/63807_The%20gaps%20in%20fatwa%20on%20intersex%20corrective%20surgery.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63807/14/63807_The%20gaps%20in%20fatwa%20on%20intersex%20corrective%20surgery_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63807/21/63807_The%20gaps%20in%20fatwa%20on%20intersex%20corrective%20surgery_WoS.pdf Mohd Badrol, Muhammad Afif and Awang, Abdul Bari and Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah and Zainuddin, Ani Amelia (2018) The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia. Intellectual Discourse, 26 (1). pp. 75-89. ISSN 0128-4878 http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam
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description	Intersex being a birth impairment in human babies is a fact of human precreation. Opposed to normal birth of humans as males and females incidents of babies with vague gender identity have perturbed people and families as to how to socially place them within the binary system of men and women in the community. In Islam, it is more important in view of the gendered orientation of some Islamic laws and its system of social ethics. Accordingly, jurists formulated an Islamic blueprint to manage this segment. However, their main criteria to align such individuals to one of the normal genders were inadequate to assign a specific sex to all intersex. Medical science, on the other hand, proposes not only to achieve precise diagnoses of intersex conditions but also to manage them medically. Accordingly, Muslim jurists and muftis by and large celebrated this medical solution as a better remedy to resolve this juridical perplexing question. This study, however, argues that juristic stamp of approval needs to be more ethically grounded so as to avoid pitfalls inherent in this medical innovation.
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author	Mohd Badrol, Muhammad Afif Awang, Abdul Bari Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Zainuddin, Ani Amelia
author_facet	Mohd Badrol, Muhammad Afif Awang, Abdul Bari Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Zainuddin, Ani Amelia
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title	The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia
title_short	The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia
title_full	The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia
title_fullStr	The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia
title_sort	gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: some reflections in the context of malaysia
publisher	IIUM Press
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The gaps in fatwa on intersex corrective surgery: Some reflections in the context of Malaysia

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