The phenomenon of sexual transformation in Lebanon raised controversy. Can it be considered a phenomenon in our culture that means moving from one sex to another as well as advanced surgical and hormonal intervention in the body becomes a reality? Is there a real satisfactory classification of this phenomenon?
 
Opinions differ on this issue. Clergy are studying the issue, while lawmakers are putting some barriers and obstacles in the way of making the lives of transgender people a normal life, despite a recent decision banning the criminalization of gay and transgender people.

Sami (formerly named Samia, 44) says: "From childhood, I felt that I was very different from others." "I have always known that I was a boy despite the long braids of my hair, so I hoped until I was 14 years old that I would be a boy overnight," he added.
 
  "I never trusted anyone, so I decided to adapt to my body." "I wanted to wear a woman's clothes and I married a man beacause I thought that this link would be my salvation," he said.

"Going to see a psychiatrist was a very difficult step," Samy stated, adding that the doctor explained to me what I was suffering, and what I did not understand for 30 years.

 Dr. Mahmoud Awad said that the operation of transformation includes the re-identification of sex in men through removing testicles, followed by the establishment of a new place for the vagina and clitoris. For women who want to change their sex, the operation includes mastectomy, hysterectomy and removing ovaries, followed by transplantation of a penis in various ways.

Awad added that the number of transgender is increasing day by day, but the Ministry of Health or any NGO refuses to announce the percentage of the number of transgender, stressing that they become part of the fabric of Lebanese society.