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I'm not sure if I feel like applauding these women or smacking them across the face. And I can't believe that you can get a sex change in Saudia Arabia.

So 5 women, frustrated by being second-class citizens, have elected to have sex reassignment surgery to become men. No more birkas...now they can drive around town...so I'm not sure that they're making the wrong decision. And if I was a women I'd definitely want to marry one of them instead of a real man. But it does irk the feminist in me. Why do you have to become a man to be taken seriously? Why can't women just be women?

Here's the entire article:

Tired of being second to men in conservative Saudi Arabia, five women decided if you can't beat them, join them.

Al Watan newspaper said the five women have underwent sex change surgeries abroad over the past 12 months after they developed a "psychological complex" due to male domination.

Women in Saudi Arabia, which adopts an austere interpretation of Islam are not allowed to drive or even go to public places unaccompanied by a male relative.

The newspaper quoted a senior cleric as saying the authorities have to fill what he described as a legal vacuum by issuing laws against sex change operations.

An interior ministry official told the Watan such cases are examined by religious authorities, and sometimes by psychologists, but those who undergo sex change are never arrested.