Sex-change man dies
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By FARIK ZOLKEPLI and NURHIDAYAH RAMLI
newsdesk@thestar.com.my
KUALA TERENGGANU: Mohd Ashraf Hafiz Abdul Aziz, 25, has died and so has Aleesha Farhana, the woman he wanted to be.
Doctors at the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital, where the deceased was admitted on Friday after a heart problem and low blood pressure, said the patient was suffering from unstable angina with cardiogenic shock. The patient died at 4.55am yesterday.
Big loss: Mohd Ashraf was buried at the Kampung Seberang Takir Muslim cemetery in Kuala Terengganu yesterday.
The deceased had failed in a bid to carry a womans name in the identity card after undergoing a sex change in Thailand two years ago.
The family, adhering to a High Court ruling, buried the deceased as a man at the Kampung Seberang Takir Muslim cemetery at 4.30pm.
Mohd Ashraf stirred the nation when the court rejected an application on July 18 to change his gender and name to Aleesha Farhana Abdul Aziz.
Judge Datuk Mohd Yazid Mustafa ruled there was no legal statute to grant the application based solely on a sex-change operation.
He said a persons gender was determined at birth and could not be changed through surgery.
Mohd Ashrafs father Abdul Aziz Ahmad, 60, said: All close family members were at his side up to the last moments of his life. It is a big loss to us.
Mohd Ashrafs mother, who only wished to be known as Kak Yah, 51, said her transsexual son had placed an order for a baju kurung Pahang and had been excited about wearing it for Hari Raya.
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