Court Gender Ruling

(Malaysia) A Malaysian High Court has ruled that 26-year-old Ashraf Hafiz Abdul Aziz, a trans woman, is a man despite having completed sex reassignment surgery in 2008.

. . . while the country allows sex reassignment surgery, trans men and women cannot be legally recognised and the high court ruled that her surgery had merely changed her genitals, rather than her sex.

Aziz had sought a new identification card reflecting the physical modifications resulting from the reassignment surgery. Unfortunately for Aziz, the court apparently believes that biology is a function of chromosomes, not scalpels.