Rona Marech, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 25, 2005
Transgender hip-hopper Katastrophe, at home in San Franci... Katastrophe cuts tracks in his bedroom recording studio. ...
Rocco Kayiatos, the hip-hop artist known as Katastrophe, compulsively discloses his past. He talks about it with strangers on the street, with waitresses, and always, always with his audiences.
"I'm the token joke in this world," he sings in "Something Different." "If you didn't understand, try to, woman or a man, not true. There's something different."
For fans who don't see what the lyrics are getting at, he comes out and says it: The swaggering, rhyme-throwing, emoting, girl-crazy, 25-year-old hip- hopper with the scramble of brown hair and the dark eyes that have sent more than a few Catholic schoolgirls into happy paroxysms is transgender. He used to be a girl. . . .
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Pakistani police arrest couple for lying about sex of husband, who underwent sex change
The Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan: Police arrested a wife and her husband — who was born a woman and underwent sex reassignment surgery 16 years ago — and accused them Sunday of lying about the husband's gender to a court in eastern Pakistan.
The case pits the bride's father, who wants to annul his daughter's wedding on the grounds that it is against Islam for two women to marry, against the couple, who said they married to protect the bride from being sold into marriage to pay off her uncle's gambling debts.
The husband, Shumail Raj, 31, first brought the case to court, appealing for protection from harassment by their relatives. But earlier this month the Lahore High Court ordered the arrest of Raj and his wife, Shahzina Tariq, 26, for lying to the court.
Raj told the court he is male, but a court-appointed panel ruled that Raj is a woman, whose breasts and uterus were removed in sex-change surgery.
Raj told the court-appointed doctors that he underwent gender reassignment surgery when he was 15 after he noticed changes in his voice and began to grow facial hair. The court-appointed panel found he had no penis, and the entrance to his vagina was surgically closed. . . .
LAHORE, Pakistan: Police arrested a wife and her husband — who was born a woman and underwent sex reassignment surgery 16 years ago — and accused them Sunday of lying about the husband's gender to a court in eastern Pakistan.
The case pits the bride's father, who wants to annul his daughter's wedding on the grounds that it is against Islam for two women to marry, against the couple, who said they married to protect the bride from being sold into marriage to pay off her uncle's gambling debts.
The husband, Shumail Raj, 31, first brought the case to court, appealing for protection from harassment by their relatives. But earlier this month the Lahore High Court ordered the arrest of Raj and his wife, Shahzina Tariq, 26, for lying to the court.
Raj told the court he is male, but a court-appointed panel ruled that Raj is a woman, whose breasts and uterus were removed in sex-change surgery.
Raj told the court-appointed doctors that he underwent gender reassignment surgery when he was 15 after he noticed changes in his voice and began to grow facial hair. The court-appointed panel found he had no penis, and the entrance to his vagina was surgically closed. . . .
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