almasryalyoum.com – Nora Younis – Samah Abdel Aaty
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.