Ruling on transgender in Islamic jurisprudence and Iraqi law : an analytical and evaluative study

الملخص

The progress of modern science and technological development in the present era has helped humanity greatly, and society has become in progress and development, but this progress and development is a double-edged sword, and as a result of this development a phenomenon has emerged that began recently, which is the problem of sex change, sex conversion is a strange phenomenon, and scientific development and modern medical progress have helped to facilitate the process of transsexualization, and helped to change sex in surgeries and spread this phenomenon in the world and Islamic countries.  This research sheds light on the concept and problem of gender transforms, and jurists have addressed the statement of the position of Islamic law on this process, as well as sheds light on the legal position towards the process of transsexuality, by highlighting the sayings of Islamic jurists, and analyzing the sayings and answering them, as well as the statement of the position of Iraqi law towards this issue.