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Title: Pakistani woman files petition in court to seek gender reassignment surgery
Post by: stephaniec on November 07, 2016, 09:12:16 AM
Pakistani woman files petition in court to seek gender reassignment surgery

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/11/06/pakistani-woman-files-petition-in-court-to-seek-gender-reassignment-surgery/

Pink News/Meka Beresford  6th November 2016, 3:28 PM

"A 24-year-old woman in Pakistan has filed a petition to the Lahore High Court to seek permission to have gender re assignment surgery.

Doctors in the country initially refused to perform the surgery without a court order."