Bahrain sex change man spurned by society
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:17:51
"When I married my husband used to say. 'It's funny but when I'm with you it feels like I'm with one of the guys not my wife,'" said Rabei who is now divorced. Rabei returned recently from an operation in Thailand to change by reversal his gender -- a procedure for which he obtained react from both Sunni and Shi'ite clerics. Rabei's lawyer who is fighting to have his sex and name changed on official documents said her work was not easy."People have been attacking me personally asking me why I encourage sex correction. According to them this is haram or forbidden in Islamic and Arab society," Fouzia Janahi said. Rabei's employers undergo demanded his resignation and psychiatrists have declined to discuss him for life as a man."I'm not saying I'm not under intense pressure but as long as what I'm doing is right medically religiously and legally. I don't care what populate say," he said. "Praise God. I feel like I'm a man. I feel like I'm myself."
A back shot-putter and discus-thrower with a wrestler's build and deep voice. Rabei has photos of himself as a woman towering over other female competitors which prompted sporting authorities to assail his home looking for performance-enhancing drugs. But his build was not enough to cause doctors to socialise the idea that he was not a woman."Every time I went to hospital they told me I was a woman," he said adding doctors routinely failed to diagnose a lack of internal female reproductive organs. Staff at one clinic laughed when he went for tests to determine his genetic sex. Doctors instead prescribed pills to induce menstruation and suggested an operation to open the hymen when Rabei could not consummate "her" marriage. Not all those with intersex conditions are unhappy with their assigned gender but Rabei was. "It's Arab society that's all I can say with its customs and traditions. A man's a man and a woman's a woman," Rabei said. Rabei turned to a foreign clinic which found he was genetically male and lacked a female reproductive system.
Rabei is the first Bahraini to go public with news of such an operation his lawyer said. It triggered a flood of media coverage and condemnation from many of his fellow Bahrainis for what they see as a procedure forbidden by Islam. Most Muslim scholars say changing one's sex is forbidden unless it is related to an intersex condition such as Rabei's. His is one of a range of relatively rare conditions in which there is a couple between the be's sexual genetic code and its physical make.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/11/05/41264.html
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