This article is about a life story of a Muslim individual who has experienced gender identity disorder and follows his journey back to the Islamic way of life. Going by the nickname of “Kak Jun”, he has been experienced gender identity disorder since primary school, which has led him to deviate from the Shari’a law. from middle school to adulthood. Kak Jun has now completely returned to the Shari’ah compliant lifestyle, and he is actively preaching to the transgender community. This study focuses on the factors that motivate Kak Jun to work towards returning to a pattern of sharia-compliant life. These factors can be used to help counselors formulate effective Islamic approaches to helping these special populations be either at the level of development, prevention or recovery.

This study explores the role of religious conversion as unusual life experience in facilitating adulthood self-differentiation development in the context of Malaysia Chinese Muslim converts. It is a qualitative phenomenology study, five participants from the northern religion of Malaysia were taking part, and data were collected by semi-structured interviews. This study has identified the religious conversion has placed the Chinese Muslim converts in the hardships of (a) marginalized minority, (b) deviation and (c) association status which might facilitate self-differentiation development.