In the 1980s, scholars at a leading Islamic institution, Al-Azhar University in Egypt, supported gender reassignment as permissible under Islamic law.

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Al-Azhar University, a leading Islamic institution, issued a fatwa in the 1980s declaring sex reassignment surgery permissible under Islamic law for those diagnosed with gender dysphoria, recognizing it as a treatment for a medical condition rather than a cosmetic procedure.

In the 1980s, Scholars at a Leading Islamic Institution, Al-Azhar