Because they are girls. No higher education for girls.
Note also the gratuitous poke at Israel in the first paragraph.
"Rare gender identity defect hits Gaza families," by Ivan Watson for CNN, December 17 (thanks to Dotty):
Gaza City (CNN) -- Two Palestinian teenagers stroll amid the mounds of rubble left by last year's Israeli military offensive, listening to the tinny beat of a Turkish pop song playing on a cell phone.Nadir Mohammed Saleh and Ahmed Fayiz Abed Rabo are cousins and next-door neighbors. With their gelled hair, buttoned-down shirts and jeans, they look much like any other 16-year-old Palestinian boy. But looks, Ahmed says, can be deceiving.
"Only my appearance, my haircut and clothing, makes me look like a boy," Ahmed says, gesturing with his hands across his face. "Inside, I am like a female. I am a girl."
Until last summer, both Nadir and Ahmed were -- for all intents and purposes -- girls. They wore female headscarves, attended girls' school and even answered to the female first names Navin and Ola.
Both Nadir and Ahmed were born with a rare birth defect called male pseudohermaphrodism.
Deficiency of the hormone 17-B-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17-B-HSD) during pregnancy left their male reproductive organs deformed and buried deep within their abdomens.
At birth, doctors identified Nadir and Ahmed as girls, because they appeared to have female genitalia.
As a result, they spent the first 16 years of their lives dressing and acting like girls. It was a role that grew increasingly difficult to play, as they hit puberty and their bodies began generating testosterone, resulting in facial hair and increasingly masculine features.
"They used to travel by car to girls' school and back," says Nadir's father Mohammed Sadih Ahmed Saleh. "Because of their facial hair, it was difficult for them to go out into the street. Psychologically they were distressed."
Finally, on June 22, with the support of their families, both Nadir and Ahmed transformed themselves into boys.
"They transferred on the same day," Saleh says. "Clothing, they switched to the other [boys'] school on the same day. They cut their hair on the same day. Both of them helped each other get through this crisis."
There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya, where Nadir and Ahmed live.
Dr. Jehad Abudaia, a Canadian-Palestinian pediatrician and urologist practicing in Gaza, says he has diagnosed nearly 80 cases like Nadir's and Ahmed's in the last seven years.
"It is astonishing that we have [so] many cases with this defect, which is very rare all over the world," Abudaia says. He attributes the high frequency of this birth defect to "consanguinity," or in-breeding.
"If you want to go to the root of the problem, this problem runs in families in the genes." Abudaia says. "They want to get married to cousins... they don't go to another family. This is a problem." [...]
Until the sex-change operation is completed, Palestinian officials won't change the gender on their identity cards to "male," thus restricting their access to higher education....
"It is astonishing that we have [so] many cases with this defect, which is very rare all over the world," Abudaia says. He attributes the high frequency of this birth defect to "consanguinity," or in-breeding.
Though Nadir and Ahmed clearly have the love and support of their family, they say that is not enough. They are appealing to the international community to help them get the expensive and complicated sex-change operations they say they need to live normal lives.
Not to slam these poor kids but now that the family has inbred itself into a corner it's up to the infidels to make it right. Here's an idea - stop breeding with your cousins.
He attributes the high frequency of this birth defect to "consanguinity," or in-breeding."
Why do we have to bail out Islam? Why doesn't Hamas hold off on its next weapons buy and pay for the needed operation? Inbreeding and incest usually leads to physical deformities and lower intelligence when repeated generation after generation.
I saw this today, too-- how CNN went out of its way to poke in the rubble and slam Israel for anything it could. The last sentence was (I'm paraphrasing), "So, for now, their bodies will be in conflict-- as is the land they are in".
I thought for sure CNN would be making a plea for these poor sweet kids' operations as a goodwill gesture.
Aah, the fruits of the practical outworking of the obsession with 'tawheed', Oneness.
Muslim societies - whether in the 'Arab' Muslim world or in Pakistan or anywhere else - save themselves from total inbreeding-induced collapse by periodically stealing the females of other, healthier, non-inbreeding groups, thus 'stealing' genetic diversity like they steal everything else.
One must assume, then, that if they got their wish and were able to transform all of planet earth into one great big Islamic gulag, then after a while (once the dhimmi herds had been ruthlessly predated to extinction) there wouldn't *be* any healthy non-inbred populations left to raid for new genetic material. *Everybody* would be marrying first cousins, generation after generation.
And so there would be NO way to rescue the Ummah, homo islamicus asapiens, from the lethal and often bizarre consequences of perpetual obsessive inbreeding; no clever and wealthy infidels to provide the expensive 'fix' that is demanded, in the posted article -
"Though Nadir and Ahmed clearly have the love and support of their family, they say that is not enough.
"They are appealing to the international community to help them get the expensive and complicated sex-change operations they say they need to live normal lives.
"It's the only obstacle and the source of all the problems," Nadir says."
And I'll BET that by 'international community' they DON'T mean, say, the obscenely wealthy Muslim princes of the abominable House of Saud (whose holy homeland has the highest rate of inbreeding in the world, and with it, a hair-raising incidence of weird, debilitating and lethal inherited genetic disorders).