SubhanAllah! It’s June again that time of the year when being proud of confusion is not just normalized, but glorified. The air is heavy with slogans, rainbows, and ideologies that claim to liberate but only to deepen the void. Walk into a public library and you will find children’s shelves lined with brightly colored books, not about wonder or learning, but about self-doubt packaged as self-expression.
Stories that question biology, dismantle family roles, and suggest to young, impressionable minds that their discomfort means they were born wrong!
Let’s dive a bit deeper to understand it all, we all know children today are growing up in a world where both parents are often absent, not by choice, but due to systematic economic pressures.
Skyrocketing inflation, consumerist culture, and even societal norms that equate success with material gain force parents into double-income households, leaving children emotionally neglected.
This void is not just a lack of supervision, it’s a deep relational and spiritual emptiness, where children/teenagers are left seeking belonging, affirmation, and identity from strangers, influencers, media, and online communities.
In that vulnerable space, they become easy prey for ideologies that capitalize on their confusion, and vulnerabilities.
They are told-
“Maybe your sadness is because you are trapped in the wrong body.”
“Your discomfort is not emotional or spiritual, it’s biological and needs fixing with our products, therapies and needles.”
It is pushed as a path to “freedom,” but often ending in lifelong dependency on pharmaceuticals. Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries, all create patients who will never stop needing treatment.
These interventions don’t heal the soul, they alter the body and often bring irreversible harm, including infertility, organ damage, and mental health crises.
Behind the slogans of “care” is a multi-billion dollar industry that sees vulnerable children not as souls needing guidance, but as lifelong customers. Here are some data to highlight the facts.
Hormone therapy market (U.S.) has worth $1.6–1.7 billion in 2022, projected to reach $2.2–2.5 billion by 2030–2034.
Sex-Reassignment Surgery (U.S.) valued at $2.1 billion in 2022, projected to grow to $5 billion by 2030.
Puberty Blockers (e.g. Lupron Depot) has generated $783 million in revenue in 2021 (used for various purposes, including gender dysphoria).
In many countries today, parents are legally sidelined.
Teachers, counselors, or even online therapists can affirm a child’s “new gender” without parental consent. Parents who question this can be accused of abuse or bigotry, can be fined or even put into heavy legal battles.
This is not compassion, it’s state interference in the family, and it rips apart the natural structure of protection and nurturing between parent and child.
The fact that the simple, biological realities are now “difficult questions” like “what is a woman?” “can a man become pregnant?” shows how language itself is being manipulated to distort fitrah (natural disposition).
Islam recognizes two genders, created by Allah Al-Khaaliq (The Creator).
“And He created the two mates, the male and the female.”
(Holy Qur’an 53:45)
These are not “assignments” at birth, they are designs by The Creator. Denying that is not just a rejection of biology, but a rejection of the wisdom of Allah Al-Hakeem, a rejection of the basic fitrah, the natural disposition, and the repercussions of going against the natural fitrah is nothing but havoc, depressions, and other mental and physical issues. The fitrah (natural disposition) is central. Islam recognizes internal struggles (waswasa, evil whispers of shaitan, trauma, mental health), but teaches that the qalb (heart) must strive to align with the divine truth not override it.
Islam teaches us that every human is born upon fitrah, a natural, pure state that recognizes One (God) Allah as Rabb.
The harmony between body and soul. The truth of male and female. The balance between rights and responsibilities.
When this fitrah is buried through trauma, neglect, loneliness, or ideological indoctrination, then confusion replaces clarity.
The rise in gender confusion is not a standalone problem.
It is a symptom of a deeper crisis, a spiritual emptiness, lack of purpose in life, broken families, and a society that profits from pain, that capitalizes on pain. It is a systematic induced crisis to generate heavy revenues.
In Islam, true freedom is not the unchecked pursuit of desires but submission to the will of Allah Al-Aleem (The All Knowing). Modern notions of “freedom” often promote absolute autonomy, the idea that individuals can define morality, identity, and even reality itself. However, Islam teaches that such detachment from divine guidance leads not to liberation but to enslavement to the nafs (ego), social pressures, or elite-driven ideologies.
The Holy Qur’an states,
“Have you seen the one who takes his desires as his god?”
(Surah Al-Jathiya 45:23)
This ayah exposes the fallacy behind modern liberty, the belief that freedom means doing whatever one desires. In reality, this often results in the human being becoming a slave to fleeting emotions, societal trends, or capitalist exploitation. Elites and powerful corporations frequently co-opt this concept of “freedom” to push agendas whether political, economic, or social that erode moral foundations and destabilize identity, particularly among youth.
The ambiguity of “freedom” allows elites to twist it into a weapon of social engineering. For example, pharmaceutical and medical industries market hormonal therapies and gender-affirming surgeries as paths to “freedom of identity” all while profiting from lifelong patients.
Media and academia frame traditional values as “oppressive” while promoting ideologies that isolate individuals from family and faith.
This isn’t freedom in the Islamic sense, it’s repackaged enslavement.
Several individuals who underwent gender transitions encouraged by the modern freedom narrative have later expressed deep regret and became vocal critics of the medical industry that facilitated their decisions.
Alhamdulilah! Islam offers a stable and holistic understanding of freedom, freedom from sin, from societal manipulation and ultimately, freedom from slavery of mankind through obedience to Allah Al-Ahad alone (The Only One).
Islam calls us to reconnect
with Allah Al-Azeem, by realizing our purpose of life, re-connecting with family, with fitrah (natural disposition) to know who we are truly, and to Whom we belong to in entirety?
May Allah Al-Haadi (The Best to Guide) guide us all, and make us not among those who take pride in being indoctrinated by the capitalists, OR who are too proud that they do not recognize the truth.