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Wednesday, 6, September, 2006 (13, Sha`ban, 1427)
KAAU to Set Up Center for Intersex Surgery
Lulwa Shalhoub, Arab News
JEDDAH, 6 September 2006 - King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) will
establish an exclusive center for intersex corrective surgeries at the
university's hospital. The center will handle the medical, psychological and
social sides of people born with organs of both sexes.
King Abdul Aziz University Hospital performed 325 corrective surgeries
during the past 25 years free of charge. A surgery costs about SR100,000, KAAU
Dean Osama Al-Taib told a press conference on Monday.
An intersex person is one who is born with genitalia or secondary sex
characteristics determined as neither exclusively male nor female or which
combine features of the male and female sexes.
Dr. Yassir Jamal, head of the medical team that performed the surgeries
at KAUH, described the intersex case as "a complicated problem" and explained
that there are four standards that differentiate a male baby from a female
baby. They are the chromosomes (XY for males and XX for females), sex glands
(two testicles in males and two ovaries in females), internal sex organs and
external sex organs.
Disorders in any of these elements lead to intersex newborns, said Dr.
Jamal. The doctor explained that the surgeons correct the condition after
determining which traits are more prominent in each individual case.
"People who have undergone these surgeries are now leading a normal life
just like any other person," said Taib
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