The School Helping Trans Muslims in Indonesia | Transnational

In this episode of Transnational, Rana Thamrin embarks on a spiritual journey to Indonesia’s only Islamic school in Yogyakarta where transgender Muslim women are finding ways to reconcile their faith and trans identity.
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[@rxxsxhux9710]

my fellow indonesian, lets treat human like human, people to people, heart to heart.

[@Saphiera270]

mashallah my darling, i am so proud of you! this video made me tear up at multiple points. I'm so proud of all of you, allah loves you so much

[@i_palindrone_i]

Me too I was teary than lol laughing at myself for falling into the feelings part of you tube lol

[@starfish1936]

Really proud as a Muslim to see the ummah become more accepting of transmuslim women. Every day a new proud transwoman is able to reconcile her identity with teachings of our nabi(saw). Alhamdulillah.

[@ZAKIRRANA7692]

Ho naturally born hote hai , unhe sirf Islam hi izzat deta hai ,warna bahut se kinner majburi me bheekh mangne lagte hai

[@gallaxseizor9216]

I am hugely disappointed and disgusted in muslims that accept this and you for stating that. The prophet would be disgusted as well and would pray for them to change their ways

[@drhannah8525]

The part when the imam said you are a noble creation of God made me tear up. Thank God there are still progressive tolerant voices amongst us in the muslim community.

[@Dr.M.Wahid-U-zzaman]

Mashallah. You are doing the best possible deed for these people. Our prophet Muhammad s.a. said to address them as incomplete women and men. There is no transgender in islam. They are the creation of Allah s.w.t. Everyone is equal in the sight of Allah s.w.t .May Allah s.w.t bless them to practice Islam peacefully with their family, relatives, friends,and society. It's our duty to help them. May Allah s.w.t grant them peace here and hereafter.

[@funkaholicpunk]

This was a wonderful documentary to watch, really beautiful and uplifting ❤

[@eduardopadilla5505]

Some think they are better than others but, finally everybody damages one another.

[@ryn2844]

I love this series so much

[@halroxdynasty8683]

It's crazy and sad these women are not protected and accepted by their religion that they are so dedicated to.

[@SalimMahmood-killuminati]

why should they be accepted??? either a trans or a muslim...why are you people constantly trying to change or "modernise" islam??? the religion was and has been completed with everything a life could possibly need and want! we do not and will not support such disgust!

[@Mylene2023]

@@SalimMahmood-killuminati because sharia law is so vital for life. Ha!

[@Joe-pc3hs]

Perhaps your unfamiliar with Islam and prefer the revisionist version?

[@wb8695]

@@SalimMahmood-killuminati your lack of empathy is disgusting! May Allah guide you to the right path because that's not it.

[@LeKing.James.9]

No matter what you say or do, you will never be able to ‘modernize’ Islam. If Allah doesn’t allow it, then we aren’t supposed to do it. There is no reason to change a religion for people that don’t think it’s modern enough.

[@YoureAnIllusion]

Wow, this was so moving and beautiful!!

[@myflippinggod1710]

thank you so so much for this video! beautiful message and beautiful souls ❤️❤️

[@kunik4480]

i envy them.. thank you rana thamrin. you are the best reporter ever. Keep motivating others.

[@a.r530]

I'm so happy that the Kyai speak out with love and empathy. It's so important to have someone like him voice it out in public.

[@BellaPalomaHeidelberg]

Wallah !!! Love for everybody !!! ❤🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧ Hate for nobody !!! ❤🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧

[@chavezarajain5975]

Rewatch this in 2024 and still I'm in tears how they fought so hard 😭❤️

[@a.r.3767]

this is so beautiful in so many ways

[@i_palindrone_i]

Ok seriously she’s a hero

[@bigbooduh]

As I matured, I came to understand that individuals across various religions tend to adapt and customize their beliefs and practices to align with their own lifestyles. So my question is, where the fuck is God?

[@gunsofbrixton8]

Well done Rana, good job .... and Shinta is a person who deserves admiration.

[@richardneo]

Religion is a relationship between the person and God. All Religion is about Kindness , Compassion and Loving Kindness. All the teachings are about doing Good. If we are the creation of God and God is kind and merciful , why then humans who believe in the faith behave otherwise ? These trans are also human beings and all they want is to live like any other humans. We all have to be more than humans where we practice to be a Being. Only then can we all co-exist like God's Children. If God does not judge , who are we to Judge ? May all Sentient beings be well and Happy.

[@noddingbart6915]

Who else has a major crush on Rana?

[@Watermelon43564]

No one…

[@houdasannad6248]

Islam forbids sexual relations outside mariage , homosexuality and alcohol. So please don't falsify this perfect religion which honered the human being and which preserved the dignity of women. Search about Islam and then u can criticize it.

[@bobsmomsdad6527]

"sex worker",trans woman, drinks and Muslim? yaa mate that make perfect sense.

[@virgiltaylor2733]

A lot of sense

[@houdasannad6248]

Islam forbids sexual relations outside mariage , homosexuality and alcohool. So please don't falsify this perfect religion which honered the human being and which preserved the dignity of women. Search about Islam and then u can criticize it.

[@bobsmomsdad6527]

@@houdasannad6248 I am a Muslim i was just being sarcastic about how the people in this video were indulging in all these things and calling themselves Muslim.

[@houdasannad6248]

@@bobsmomsdad6527 wallahi I'm shocked ! But thank u brother for supporting yr religion May Allah reward you

[@l2shields]

​​​@@bobsmomsdad6527 this is not the way of the prophet actually read these people are mentioned in hadith. have compassion in your heart. yes they do many Haram, more. but their own family and neighbours oppress them every day, they cannot get respect and r al job and people like you tell them to turn away from the beautiful deen. what do they have left then?

[@NashU-p3c]

Good job Rana!

[@Thunker147]

Of corse these new comments are like these. It is stupid that ya'll are begin to be acepted and not discriminated but this is how you treat outsiders? Tells a lot about your morals and mind

[@aronhernan4224]

Muy bien

[@Talibabe88]

lol, yea, thats not making street music, thats annoying people till they pay you to leave.. LOL

[@yungjoemighty879]

nice

[@RyanCoomer]

I deliver medical supplies to residents amd usually Cary there medicine inside of my pants to warm it up for them so before each route I do this amd drive around with the medicine bottles in my pants warming it up.

[@eclectic_savant]

If a deity wants their creations to be destroyed for any reason, at all, that deity needs to stop being a coward and do the dirty work. Why have another being created by the same creator execute me for thinking that something I have never witnessed, encountered, spoken to, listened to, observed, or had even the slightest interaction resulting in my knowledge now containing the fact that I have a creator and he had spinach in his teeth during our entire conversation is a real thing? That is so freaking messed up. Creator: "Lets see what happens if I don't tell them I'm real, then give them this really confusing rule book, and finally, put some hate in the hearts. This should work out fine." If religion had the caveat that nothing harmful could be done in a deity's name, men wouldn't be able to take corrupt action against other men. Of course there'd be loopholes and workarounds, but it wouldn't be as easy as it is now and has been for the past 2,000 years. *cough, cough, Catholics, sniff*

[@dellingson4833]

Cough, Cough, watch the video, read the title. You missed bad this is about Islam, take a break from sniffing that crap. I hope you find spritual happiness, so sad.

[@eclectic_savant]

@@dellingson4833My comment holds no relevancy to the subject matter of the video. I just believe the Vatican (not everyday citizen Catholics like I'm guessing you are) is really the Devil in Disguise. Though its the richest country in the world, local churches have financial issues trying to keep the place together. Requests for donations were going to the congregations before the Notre Dame fire was put out, I thought Catholic priests were to take an oath of poverty seems like the minute you get to Vatican, you get your money back and then some. Wouldn't the Saints and Mary fall under idolatry? Isn't that breaking one of the Commandments? I'm going to skip over small boys and dead indigenous students. The Crusades, murder of the Templars, the Spanish Inquisition, the English Monarchy, the Medici family, so much murder & corruption. How could someone (or in fact, many someones) take the actions they have in the office of the pope? How could anyone who knows the general history of Catholicism not say that the Vatican is evil and corrupt? I'm only speaking of Catholics at this moment. I think if there is a God, he shouldn't have one creation kill another creation. If he can't do it himself, he shouldn't be asking other people to do it. If one Creation kills another in his name don't you think he should put a stop to the loss of innocent lives? I mean I would think that he wouldn't like that very much, but if he did, pretty much proving what a coward he is.

[@ProdriveGT]

You have no clue about anything really.

[@Manoatevarua]

Why mention Catholics?

[@Jaywalker45]

Full of illogical fallacy

[@bulgingbattery2050]

Isn't this against their religion?

[@tajmirabadroon8883]

Are they naturally Trans?

[@beetiga4910]

Erni menyan

[@dmiddleclassreviews1688]

*i m sorry.. If u r trans, gay or lesbian... U can't be a Muslim*

[@stblitzcrick]

Realll

[@dmiddleclassreviews1688]

@@stblitzcrick yep

[@ashleyuniversespinner1938]

Even if you say that, i will continue being a Muslim for as long as I live and The only one who can stop me is Allah.

[@leliapurky9462]

How about you shut up and keep your stupid opinion to yourself?

[@00seashell]

Who are you? God?

[@cliffordoscar9043]

*Now with the recent economy, To get Financial FREEDOM you have to be making money while you're asleep.*

[@melusine826]

So sad that so many religions don't accept women as equal, let alone trans women. And where are the transmen? Oh wait is it OK to be a male? that's the point of most religions - misogyny, conformity and exclusion.

[@houdasannad6248]

Islam forbids sexual relations outside mariage , homosexuality and alcohol. So please don't falsify this perfect religion which honered the human being and which preserved the dignity of women. Search about Islam and then u can criticize it

[@khulkar3006]

К сожалению вы не знаете о Боге! Бог против греха, не против вас, будь то вы женщина или мужчина. Бог сотворил человека по образу Своего и по подобию Своего! Создал мужчину и женщину. А то что человек не доволен собою, и решит стать противоположной, то это бунт против Творца! И мерзость перед Господом всякий кто бунтует Его воли. Аминь 🙏

[@LilWhitePrivileged]

Gross....Thats 2 strikes in my book. Better to just leave the groomers to destroy each other.

[@melissasylvest365]

the right enables and protects them and uses its fanbase to help distract . I don't see it doing anything but getting worse

[@mallowmallow2070]

Ignorant, unhinged take.

[@muhammadlukman288]

Ini ga beres ni 😂 masa bisa bisanya bikin sekolah lgbt😅

[@rentakaofficial546]

😂🤣

[@Joe-pc3hs]

Cognitive dissonance.

[@Mylene2023]

Don’t use jungian psychological terms, stay within your dogma and obey every dead letter to the word.

[@yungjoemighty879]

i know you are so what am i

[@Soundboy817]

They’ll be safer in Saudi Arabia or Iran

[@Eddy12700]

No they won’t why do you say that ?

[@sunnydaysatl]

No it would be worse…they may be killed.

[@Soundboy817]

@@Eddy12700 Iran has a huge trans community and there are a lot of homosexuals in Saudi

[@eclectic_savant]

They can be besties with the massive population of African American Feminist Lesbian Muslims (yes, American) that can be found in the Middle East fighting to change religious doctrine and gender equality.

[@Eddy12700]

@@Soundboy817 oh yes your right I totally forgot I do have some Saudi friends on social media who are homosexuals but they are discrete about it

[@BUNG_DARREN]

Cringe

[@rachelhansbro7802]

Agreed😂

[@haziqmuhamad9876]

Please keep on reading the quran and perform your solat…. You know better what waiting for you in hereafter…..

[@ejd7881]

who gives a shit

[@jasimmohammad8510]

If anyone has a problem they want to solve: (Whatever health, social or financial) By (problems) I mean all problems. Healthy -- I mean sick.. any disease.. Social --- means a single person who wants to get married, He has a disobedient son, he has a strong father on him, She has a bad husband...and so on. Finance. -- I mean, he has a debt, his livelihood is weak. Among the ways to solve problems: 1. Continuous daily charity, even if a little. 2. Repetitive supplication anyway (two words) Oh Lord bless me, Lord heal me, Lord spend my religion. 3. Kiss your father and mother's hand every day, even once. Then I pray to God (two words) 4. Morning and Evening Prayers . 5. Forgiveness while continuing. 6. Repeat..there is no power and no strength but Allah. 7. Prayers for the Prophet while continuing. 8. Read Surat Al-Baqarah daily, even if it is by mobile phone, even if it is intermittent in stages. 9. Humanitarian aid and supplication afterwards. [The meaning of this paragraph is (benevolence to creation) whether it is a human being or an irrational being cat or sparrow]. 10. Duha prayer four rak'ahs. 11 . Two units of prayer of need... with the intention of (healing / marriage / sustenance) repeat it every day. 12. Al-Raqiya Al-Shari'a - by yourself - from it - To read Surat Al-Ikhlas or Al-Fatihah or something else on the Water and drink..every day even once. You will see good and pleasant results, God willing These are all tried and true in real life... and there are people who adhere to them And reap a lot of good results... And it is not a requirement that you do it all... Take from it What suits your situation and condition.. even if I stuck to one paragraph of it, and I won.. Note: How if you do these points or Some of them solve problems? The answer--your problem will be solved with one There are two ways, but God guides you for a reason missing you... Or that God mocks you from external causes Other people do not solve your problem. May God grant you success... God bless our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions . Do not forget the good prayers ..... ٠٠٠٠٠٠٠

[@Abell_lledA]

We’re caught up playing the impassioned protagonist in our Subjective Narrative of Self 🔴🟥