For two on-line articles about transexuals in Egypt,
look here.
I'm looking for someone to translate an article by
Vardit Rispler-Chaim about Moslem transexuals from Arabic to English;
please contact me if you can help or would like more information.
In the book Islamic Medical Ethics in the Twentieth
Century, by Vardit Rispler-Chaim (Brill, Leiden 1993) there is
a short mention of sex-change surgeries in the Plastic and beauty
surgeries chapter.
There is an article by Agostino Cilardo "Historical
development of the legal doctrine relative to the position of the
hermaphrodite in the Islamic law" in THE SEARCH, journal for Arab
and Islamic Studies, winter 1986, 128-170
Paula Saunders has an article "gendering the ungendered.."
in WOMEN IN MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron (eds.)
Yale U Press 1991 74-95"
Peter Freimark, "Zur Stellung des Zwitters im rabbinischen
und islamischen Recht," ZDMG 120 (1970), 84-102
Agostino Cilardo, "Historical Development of the
Legal Doctrine Relative to the Position of the Hermaphrodite in the
Islamic Law," The Search 7 (1986), 128-170