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Safavifar F, Eftekhar M, Alavi K, Negarandeh R, Jalali A H, Eftekhar M. Religious experiences of Iranian transgenders: A qualitative study. Med J Islam Repub Iran 2016; 30 (1) :605-611
URL: http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-3808-en.html
Psychiatry Department, Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. , mehrdad.eftekhar@gmail.com
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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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Type of Study: Original Research | Subject: Psychiatry

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