REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) issues an edict saying that sex reassigment surgery (SRS) is forbidden in Islam.
"Nobody can change his/her gender. Even a male who has female characteristic influenced by his environment, he is not allowed to have the SRS," Secretary of MUI Edict Commission, Asrorun Niam, said on Tuesday.
Islam prohibits sex reassigment surgery regardless to the court's permission. But, if a person has conducted the surgery, he/she must follow the Islamic law for his/her initial gender. If he is a man before the surgery, then this trans sexual person cannot marry other man and treated as a man in Islam.
