A Pakistani court ordered the arrest of a couple who married last year after a team of doctors concluded the groom was really a woman, despite a sex-change operation, officials said.
The case casts a rare public spotlight on transsexualism, which along with homosexuality and cross-dressing are considered taboo in conservative Pakistan.
The Lahore High Court issued the warrant Wednesday after medics charged with examining 31-year-old Shumail Raj submitted their report, Mohammed Sharif, a judge at the court said.
Ejaz Bhatty, a senior doctor who led the team, said Raj told the medics he had consulted a doctor 16 years ago after noticing that his voice had changed and that he was sprouting facial hair.
The doctor recommended gender reassignment surgery and operated twice on Raj, removing breasts and uterus, Bhatty said. However, the court medics concluded that "all the evidence supports that the person in question is a woman," he said.
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