How many t-girls are there?

[peggygee]

In Saudi Arabia? zero.

Fatwas allowing SRS have been issued in a number of Isamic countries,
including Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, etc.

A fatwa is a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar, judge
or mufti. It will be based upon the Qur'an, Sunnah and Islamic
Shari'ah. The Shari'ah is the revealed and the canonical laws
of the religion of Islam.

However it appears that, as a conservative Islamic state, Saudi Arabia
does not allow surgery for transsexuals, but permits operations on people
with an intersex condition. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3814041.stm

Thanks for pointing me to this. Peggy

First I will say that what peggygee has said is 100% accurate.

FYI the word for transsexual in arabic is "mukhannath".
When this is explained to people in the west it is sort of fudged around. In one place they may say it means hermaprodite, in others they may say Eunnuch. Sites ran by homosexual muslims will try to claim they were just gay men (but then then homosexuals say that about moder transsexuals too )

This page basically links to all the historical stuff you would want to know about. The most interesting thing is that Mohammed aparently knew several of us. Most who were friends of his youngest and fovaroite wife Aisha.
Wikipedia:Mukhannathun Mukhannathun (Arabic مخنثون "effeminate ones",
singular mukhannath).

You may notice the use of the male pronoun in that page. It is correct to the thinking of the time. Though these people were free to change role there was no concept of change of sex as we think of it. Castration to stop masculinizeation and that was about it. Hormoes? Want to suck on a goat ovary?

Never the less it should not be surprising that transsexuals of that time would find their way to Mecca in disproportionate numbers, it was the New York of its time and place.

I find it very interesting reading all that stuff how in so many ways those transsexuals were much like the transsexuals here and now.

http://www.hungangels.com/board/view...=fatwa&start=0

[peggygee]

Terrific response, thanks!!

Thank you, you are most welcome.

[rt_saurus]

Does anyone know roughly how many t-girls there who have some aspect of a public life as a tgirl...

One brazilian?