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Egyptian discovers fiancée of three years is man
Cairo | December 21, 2005 7:15:06 PM IST

An Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancée of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil, the daily Al-Gomhuria reported Wednesday.

The 26-year-old groom-to-be, Tamer Shehata, was notified by a female guest attending his wedding that his would-be wife was a man in women's clothing.

When Shehata confronted his fiancée, the latter broke down and revealed that 'she' was actually an 18-year-old man called Ahmed Abo Zeid, the newspaper said.

Abo Zeid confessed that he had tried several times to undergo a sex change but had failed to secure doctors' approval.

The man, whose face was obscured to Shehata by a niqab or face veil was quoted in the paper as saying that he had intended to tell his husband the truth after they were married, and had hoped to convince him to consummate the marriage.

He was held for 45 days on charges of swindling and posing as a woman.