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It’s good to know that justice is served in this Islamic country.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a transman and his wife who were jailed in May for perjury.

Female-to-male transsexual Shumail Raj, 31, and his wife Shahzina Tariq, 24, were sent to jail when a Lahore court ruled Raj was still biologically a woman despite two surgeries.

Judge Khawaja Sharif ruled that the couple had broken the law by lying about the gender of Raj, whom Tariq said she wed to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage. At the time of the marriage, she claimed to be unaware that Raj was born female.The judge also deemed their relationship un-Islamic.

On Thursday, after a judge agreed to hear appeals against the convictions, the couple’s lawyer told Reuters that the court’s judgment had been suspended, and that Raj and Tariq would be released on bail of $828 each.

“The Supreme Court has ordered their release,” defense lawyer Babar Awan told Reuters.
No date has been set for the appeal.

It is believed that the case is the first of its kind in the Islamic country, even though many male-to-female transsexuals live openly in Pakistan. (Hassan Mirza, Gay.com U.K.)

She was born a man, became a woman, was betrothed to a man, and then was thrown in jail for it.

Gast, 48, applied for a marriage license in February to wed her partner, George “Georgi” Somers. On March 18, however, just two days before the wedding date, Gast was jailed for lying about her sex.

The state opened an investigation after Somers’ daughter, Crystal Call, e-mailed the Leavenworth county attorney’s office in March, saying that both parties were men.

Prosecutor Frank Kohl says investigators found a birth certificate and a 1999 divorce record that identifies Gast’s first name as Edward.

Even if Gast truly considers himself a woman, Kohl argues, the state would not recognize the marriage. Kansas law defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

In addition, a 2002 state Supreme Court decision voided a transsexual marriage.

Defense Attorney Pedro Irigonegaray, however, claims that Gast is legally a woman, and therefore has the right to marry a man in Kansas.

In September 2003, Gast changed the name on her birth certificate, driver’s license and social security card to reflect her new female identity. Gast presented the new driver’s license when applying for the marriage license.