Saudi Arabia
A Saudi study revealed an increase in the percentage of sex correction operations in the Kingdom in recent years, as within one year 60 pathological cases were corrected from one gender to another, while only 370 cases were corrected over the past 25 years. The problem of satisfactory gender mixing between male and female characteristics is one of the most critical issues facing Saudi society
"Okaz" newspaper quoted in its issue issued today, Saturday, Dr. Yasser Saleh Jamal, consultant pediatric and plastic surgery at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, as saying that "sex correction operations are carried out in the university hospital according to the fatwas of religious references in the Kingdom" indicating that "gender correction means correction." For a wrong situation to a healthy one. As for changing the sex, which is not legally rejected, it is a change from a healthy position to a wrong one and it involves a change in God''s creation.
He revealed that the external reproductive organs are one of the most common means of determining sex for the general public, and this defect is called the ambiguous reproductive system (in which the reproductive system is a mediator between masculinity and femininity) and requires full examinations to reach the correct gender of the child.
"Okaz" newspaper quoted the head of the District Court in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Al-Dhafri as saying, "Each man and woman have his own job and converting himself into a woman is forbidden by Sharia. It is not permissible at all, and also it is not permissible for a woman to convert herself through medicine to A man because she is a woman. "
