Saudi women emancipate themselves via sex change
I knew Islam repressed women, especially the more hard-line Islam... but I have got to give these women props for thinking "outside the box".
From Yahoo! News:
RIYADH (Reuters) - Tired of playing second fiddle to men in conservative Saudi Arabia, five women decided if you can't beat them, join them. Al Watan newspaper said the five women underwent sex change surgery abroad over the past 12 months after they developed a "psychological complex" due to male domination.
Women in Saudi Arabia, which adopts an austere interpretation of Islam, are not allowed to drive or even go to public places unaccompanied by a male relative.
The newspaper quoted a senior cleric as saying the authorities have to fill what he described as a legal vacuum by issuing laws against sex change operations.
Legal vacuum? Of course there's a legal void in sex change operations... they've been legally castrating eunuchs for centuries now with not a one getting their day in court!
An interior ministry official told al Watan such cases are examined by religious authorities, and sometimes by psychologists, but those who undergo sex change are never arrested.
Of course they're never arrested! The prevailing attitude: "Who can blame these women for wanting to become men?"
Ladies and... umm, former ladies, the battle of the sexes has defectors!