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Title: Malaysia's Muslim transsexuals battle sex change woes
Post by: LostInTime on September 03, 2007, 10:08:49 AM
Post by: LostInTime on September 03, 2007, 10:08:49 AM
Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=malaysias-muslim-transsex&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters)
By Liau Y-Sing
When Khartini Slamah first came out as a transsexual, he was a dutiful Muslim son by day and a prostitute by night, working on the streets of the Malaysian capital.
The option of sex change surgery was out of the question in this moderate Muslim country where Muslim transsexuals are banned from changing their gender and same sex relationships are a criminal offence.
By Liau Y-Sing
When Khartini Slamah first came out as a transsexual, he was a dutiful Muslim son by day and a prostitute by night, working on the streets of the Malaysian capital.
The option of sex change surgery was out of the question in this moderate Muslim country where Muslim transsexuals are banned from changing their gender and same sex relationships are a criminal offence.