Religious experiences of Iranian transgenders: A qualitative study

Authors

  • Amir Hossein Jalali Psychiatry Department, Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Farnoosh Safavifar Tehran Psychiatry Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Kaveh Alavi Psychiatry Department Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Maryam Eftekhar Tehran Psychiatry Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Mehrdad Eftekhar Psychiatry Department, Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Reza Negarandeh Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:

Background: Gender identity disorder and its treatment with sex reassignment surgery is a profound experience, which can affect the mental, interpersonal, social and religious aspects of one’s life.   Methods: This was a qualitative content analysis study focusing on the various dimensions of the experiences of seven patients suffering from gender identity disorder in a female-to-male subgroup. This study presents a report concerning the religious aspects of their experience.   Results: The findings of this study were categorized into the four following conceptual categories: sense of guilt; accomplishing a sense of submission to God’s will as well as God’s pleasing; practical commitment to religion; and rejection by the religious communities.   Conclusion: Diminishing religion to spirituality comprised the core experiences of these patients having intimate relations with such concepts as secularism, stigma, and technocracy. 

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volume 30  issue 1

pages  605- 611

publication date 2016-01

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