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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 the conservative Saudi society.
"Okaz" newspaper quoted in its issue yesterday, Dr. Yasser Saleh Jamal, a consultant of 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 sinful situation to a healthy one. As for changing the sex and what is legally rejected, it is a change from a healthy situation to a wrong one and it involves a change in God''s creation. He explained that the external reproductive organs are one of the most common means of determining the sex for the general population, and this defect is called the ambiguous reproductive system and requires complete examinations to reach the correct gender of the child.
