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Gender identity is an issue that the world’s religions have struggled with throughout history. The problem with religion and gender is that religious doctrine usually filters through to us via our educators at early ages and does little to elaborate on over-simplified and out dated guidelines for how boys and girls need to be. In the Middle East, women practicing the Muslim faith feel that their identity and facial features need to be masked, and appear shrouded whenever in public. This act of a penitence is due to that religion’s demand for humility before Allah, and it is no doubt that women who are born in to that culture are less to adhere to the more liberal western ideals of gender equality and fe