Article Dans Une Revue Anthropology of the Middle East Année : 2025

Transsexual Surgery in Egypt or the Suspicion of Homosexuality

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The figure of the ‘third gender’ is not new in Egypt but today medical advances made it possible for trans people to undergo sex change surgery. Although a fatwā was issued in 1988 by the Sunnī muftī of al-Azhar in Cairo, at-Tantawi, about the case of a trans person, Sally Mursi, it did not in fact authorize surgery for trans people but only for intersex individuals. Recently, Malak al-Kashif, another trans woman, struggled for trans rights in the first trans association created in 2017 in Egypt called Transat. Furthermore, a comparative analysis of the situation of transsexuality in Sunni Egypt with Shī ʿ ī Iran shows that, paradoxically, Iran allows transsexual surgery for the same reason that Egypt forbids it: the ban of homosexuality.

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hal-05097583 , version 1 (04-06-2025)

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Corinne Fortier. Transsexual Surgery in Egypt or the Suspicion of Homosexuality. Anthropology of the Middle East, 2025, Trans, Queer, and Third Gender People in Muslim Countries, 20 (1), pp.127-140. ⟨10.3167/ame.2025.200108⟩. ⟨hal-05097583⟩
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