Doctors assert that GID persons have the right to undergo transgender operations but the government refuses to legalize them. On Sundays, they can go to Al-Hussein University Hospital, on Mondays to the Kasr Al-Aini Hospital, while the Demerdash Hospital receives them on Tuesdays. According to one doctor, the brain of people identifying as transgender gives an opposite signal to their genitals to what is considered normal. To the state authorities I’m a man […] but my father made a trick to get my ID card,” Samar says. Despite being financially capable of seeking treatment abroad, he has decided to complete his treatment in Egypt.

Source: Egypt Independent January 05, 2018 11:50 UTC