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by Cynthia Lee

MALACCA: "He" was actually a she.

The syariah court heard yesterday that Mohd Sufian Mohamad, 40, was a woman when "he" married Zaiton Aziz, 43.

Malacca Hospital gyneacologist Dr Nor Hasinah Mohd Said said a physical examination carried out with two other specialists revealed that Sufian was not a man.

"Chromosome tests also confirmed that ‘he’ was a woman.

"I also conducted a blood test which indicated that the sample belonged to a woman," she said.

Dr Nor Hasinah was replying to questions posed by syariah lawyer Mohd Mokhtar Karim.

Sufian, who was registered as Mazinah Mohamad at birth, is charged under section 11 of the Malacca Islamic Family Enactment 2002.

The couple’s marriage, so-lemnised by imam Ishak Juki from the Bukit Cina mosque, had been deemed legal as all procedures had been adhered to.

However, problems surfaced a few months later when the Malacca Religious Affairs Department refused to register the marriage after becoming suspicious of the bridegroom’s gender.

The couple, who now live in Selangor, stand to have their marriage annulled if the court finds them guilty.

Asked if there was a possibility of Sufian being a herma-phrodite, Dr Nor Hanisah said this was not the case.

Another witness, Dr Mohd Safian, who examined the defendant on Jan 20 last year at the Malacca Hospital Casualty Unit, said Sufian did not have a prostate gland.

Hearing continues

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