EGYPT: Ministry takes legal action against sex change surgeon
July 22, 2010 | 7:49 am
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/07/egypt-ministry-takes-legal-action-against-gender-transformation-surgeon.html (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/07/egypt-ministry-takes-legal-action-against-gender-transformation-surgeon.html)
The Egyptian Minister of Health has shut down a clinic in Asyut while its owner is questioned on criminal charges of performing sex change operations. Plastic surgeon Mahmoud Eteifi was reported to the ministry by the Medical Syndicate for operating on a 22-year-old man who wanted to be a woman.
Gender transformation is illegal in Egypt unless the patient receives approval from the syndicate and the Ministry of Health. An applicant must be tested and scanned to prove the sex change is meant to overcome a physical problem and not for personal preference. Islam Salah Salem, who underwent the surgery to become Nora Salah Salem, has been moved to another hospital until he recovers from surgery the syndicate has criticized as a failure.
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Egypt's leading psychiatrist comments on transsexual case
Nora Younis
Samah Abdel Aaty
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/egypt%E2%80%99s-leading-psychiatrist-comments-transsexual-case (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/egypt%E2%80%99s-leading-psychiatrist-comments-transsexual-case)
The head of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association, Ahmed Okasha, has joined the debate over the legitimacy of sex reassignment operations currently being performed on the 22-yr-old Islam Salah in Assiut.
Salah, who identifies as a woman and now goes by Nour, was not granted permission to have the surgeries by the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate because she did not have ambiguous genitalia. She nevertheless pursued the operation, choosing a doctor in Assiut who would treat her without permission. The doctor refused to give her receipts for the procedures.