Welcome to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Trans Archives! We are pleased to introduce the first and only open-access database dedicated to transgender rights in the MENA region. Please refer to the map below to explore a comprehensive collection of information on transgender rights in this area. Here, you will find valuable resources such as case law on legal gender recognition, laws on criminalization, healthcare laws and policies, Islamic religious edicts (Fatwas), and country profiles. This convenient hub provides all the information you need to know about the laws, policies, case law, and Fatwas that impact transgender rights in the region!

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In this Psychiatry Grand Rounds video, Dr. Carl Raymond discusses the myths and realities surrounding the current landscape for LGBTQ+ individuals. They emphasize the importance of creating a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ students and educating allies. The speaker highlights the impact of legislation on the transgender community, with some states becoming sanctuaries while others restrict rights, leading to internal migration and a refugee crisis. They also debunk myths about the legitimacy of trans people and the harmful disinformation spread about gender-affirming care for individuals under 18. The speaker addresses tactics used to slow down progress in LGBTQ+ rights, such as the misuse of terms like "grooming" and flawed studies on rapid onset gender dysphoria. They emphasize the need …

Arbitrary Arrests, Discrimination, Entrapment, Privacy Violations

A major step backwards...

The role of the mental health professional, and of the psychiatrist in particular, is evolving and changing. As the recognition of transsexualism and gender identity disorder expands across the transgender spectrum, it has been recommended that gender dysphoria should replace existing diagnostic terminology. Patient-focused care is evolving and this article considers the limitations of current healthcare settings and how the mental health professional can support patients undergoing the real-life experience. Differentiation from other mental health conditions that may present as gender dysphoria is outlined, as well as specific clinical situations.

Mental health professionals may come into contact with transgender patients under various circumstances. These may range from patients presenting to a psychiatrist for the first time seeking help with cross-gender identification matters, to those with an established diagnosis …

This qualitative study examined the process of Internalized Sexual Stigma (ISS) in a sample of Egyptian gay men. Participants' experience of ISS was explained using the theoretical understanding that it represents an internal form of minority stress, which is the excess and harmful stress often experienced by individuals from stigmatized social categories due to their minority position. Thematic analysis of interviews with eight Egyptian gay males suggested that these men experienced internal minority stress as a result of the sexually-prejudiced messages they received from different sectors of their society, including its non-affirming religious institutions. Moreover, thematic analysis added cultural understanding to this theoretical explanation by producing an emerging theme that highlighted the possible role of societal pressure to meet gender expectations in perpetuating this problem. Recommendations for mental …

A useful guide to gender identity norms and the use of pronouns by cis/trans gender individuals.

In 2013, the LPA joined efforts with the Lebanese Psychiatric Society (LPS) and other non-profit organizations to advocate for the rights of LGBT individuals in Lebanon. The LPA issued a joint statement with the LPS stating that homosexuality is not a disease and does not require reparative treatment. LPA continues to support organizations in Lebanon raising awareness and lobbying for the rights of LGBT people in Lebanon.

• Homosexuality isn't a mental illness
• No evidence supporting the efficacy of reparative (conversion) therapy
• Some may seek conversion because of difficulties faced as a stigmatised group

The validity, efficacy and ethics of clinical attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation have been challenged. To date, there are no scientifically rigorous outcome studies to determine either the actual efficacy or harm of "reparative" treatments. There is sparse scientific data about selection criteria, risks versus benefits of the treatment, and long-term outcomes of "reparative" therapies. The literature consists of anecdotal reports of individuals who have claimed to change, people who claim that attempts to change were harmful to them, and others who claimed to have changed and then later recanted those claims.

• Theories at odds with APA position that homosexuality is a mental illness
• Theories integrate old psychoanalytic theories with religious beliefs.

• Homosexuality is not a psychiatric illness.
• Studies that show that conversion therapy works are methodologically flawed ** There is evidence that they are harmful.

United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - IESOGI - calls for a global ban on conversion therapy.

Conversion therapy, a practice that aims to change, ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a global problem that causes severe physical and psychological suffering to its victims. A new expert statement by the IRCT and the Independent Forensic Expert Group (IFEG) concludes that conversion therapy is practiced in more than 69 countries, is unscientific and violates the global ban on torture and ill-treatment.

In an influential book, he defied the idea that being gay, as he was, is an illness, and took on psychiatry’s “history of homophobia.” He died of the coronavirus.

See also:

• [[Twitter thread responding to J.K. Rowling transphobic blogpost]]
• [[Open letter to J.K. Rowling in response to transphobic blog post]]

See also:

• [[Twitter thread responding to J.K. Rowling transphobic blogpost]]
• [[J. K. Rowling's transphobic blog post]]

See also:

• [[Twitter thread responding to J.K. Rowling transphobic blogpost]]
• [[J. K. Rowling's transphobic blog post]]

"We propose replacing the gender binary in elite sport with a more nuanced approach – an algorithm to be applied to all elite athletes (cisgender and transgender) that accounts for a range of physiological factors (including, but not limited to, testosterone levels), and gender identity.  In addition to providing fairness to elite ciswomen athletes, an algorithm could also provide fairness to elite transmen athletes. Although not discussed in the paper, elite transmen athletes are highly likely to be physiologically disadvantaged in comparison to elite cismen athletes. Even if (via hormone therapy) a transman’s testosterone level reached that of an elite cismen athlete, some of his previous female physiology is unlikely to change (e.g. bone structure and lung size) meaning that, in this respect, they are disadvantaged in …

A teaching tool for breaking the big concept of gender down into bite-sized, digestible pieces

محامٍ: القبض على ناشطة عابرة جنسيًا من منزلها.. ومكان احتجازها غير معلوم

Tragic end of the boy who was brought up as a girl http://ind.pn/pO2bf9 (story of David Reimer)