Confusion over issues relating to transgenderism
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an old article I wrote concerning some issues relating to transgenderism. It was first posted on my personal blog last year. Written by Ng E-Jay 20 July 2008 In a society like Thailand where attitudes towards transgendered people are supposedly amongst the most liberal in the world, confusion over basic issues [...]
Sally Mursi (1966 – ) medical student, dancer.
Sayed ‘Abd Allah Mursi was apparently intersex, and was surgically adjusted and then raised as a boy. He was a student at Al-Azhar ’s Medical School for Boys in Cairo, one year from graduation, when she transitioned to Sally with surgery in 1988. Her doctor was Dr Ezzat Ashamallah, a Copt. They were both summoned [...]
Iraq snapshot
Monday, June 1, 2009. Chaos and violence continue, Iraq’s Health Ministry issues an undercount and various outlets run with it, May proves to be the deadliest month for US service members in Iraq, Barack continues torture, Iraqi gays under assault finally get some attention from Pacifica, and more. We’re going to start with an exchange [...]
Brutal medico knife culture
Previously at “Iain Hall”, I have discussed how I think that surgery is a very poor fit for those individuals with Gender identity problems. The permanence of mutilations and a total lack of real reverse ability means that this course of action has to be the ultimate “act in haste , repent at leisure” situation. [...]
Mayhem: A legal concept.
In early common law the crime of mayhem was committed by inflicting a wound that reduced a man’s ability to fight. Women were not expected to fight and so one could not commit mayhem against them. The crime was committed against the king also in that he required the use of fighting men. The loss [...]