The book includes the confessions of Sally Mursi, a charismatic transgender pioneer from Egypt. According to Wikipedia, Sally Mursi (ar: سالي مرسي, born in 1968) is an Egyptian entertainer and transgender woman. Her sex reassignment surgery in 1988 stirred a lot of controversy and lawsuits in Egypt. Before she pursued medical operations, Mursi consulted with psychologist Salwa Jirjis Labib and underwent three years of conversion therapy, after which she was referred to a plastic surgeon Ezzat Ashamallah, who affirmed the diagnosis of "psychological hermaphroditism" and prescribed hormone replacement therapy for one year prior performing surgery on January 29, 1988.
At the same period, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy also released a Fatwa, recognizing that Sally Mursi needed the surgery for her health and that it was spiritually legal to change sex for transgender people, if their doctors said they needed it. However, before she could get the surgery, she had to follow all the rules of Islam for women for a year, except the one about mariage. After the bottom surgery, Sally was refused a transfer to the university, and she won against the university in court, but the ruling was ignored and she was blacklisted at other medical schools.
She was also accused of avoiding army conscription but she was acquitted after army doctors examined her and confirmed that she was a woman. Sally was married twice to men.
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