Sex reassignment: Woman seeks court’s help for daughter

LAHORE: A woman has gone to the Lahore High Court seeking orders for sex reassignment surgery of her daughter. The plaintiff claims doctors have confirmed that her daughter was losing her female reproductive features and need a sex-change operation.

Sex reassignment is a surgical procedure (or procedures) by which a transgender person’s physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of their identified gender.

In her petition, Shama Begum stated that her daughter was experiencing extremely painful bouts owing to her changing gynaecological features.

Several ultrasound and examination by doctors confirmed the woman was undergoing sexual transition and needed urgent care.

However, when the petitioner requested the doctors to change her gender, they refused to do so fearing legal action against them.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 6^th, 2016.