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| | II Journal: Sex Change in Cairo: Gender and Islamic Law |
 | | Clearly, al-Azhar maintained, she had committed a crime; or rather, he had, for far from changing a sex the doctor had in fact mutilated a man whose motives, it was suggested, were of the basest sexual nature: by claiming himself a woman, Sayyid was trying to have legitimate sexual intercourse with another man(3). |
 | | On June 12, 1988, al-Azhar took the case to court, claiming that the surgeon was liable to punishment for inflicting a permanent disease upon the patient, according to § 240 in the penal code(6). |
 | | Tantawi thus stresses that the correct position for a hermaphrodite is to be on the move away from the hermaphroditic state, that is under treatment. |
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