Comment by jakderrida
3 years ago
> First transgender Iranian Mullah gets out of the closet.
I think Iran actually has a healthcare system that's progressive on just this one issue.
From Google AI: "Iran is the only Islamic country that recognizes sex reassignment surgery (SRS). Sex changes have been legal in Iran since the late 1980s, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, passed a fatwa authorizing them."
I forget why he did that. However, that prediction isn't as absurd as you intended.
It is not at all progressive, the Iranian authorities use this surgery as a punishment for homosexual men.
See https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/02/22/iran-gay-forced-gende...:
> Shadi Amin, an Iranian-born activist, told The Sun that this homophobic Iranian regime is controlled by religious extremists who view being gay as an "illness". They believe that the only way it can be cured is by changing gender.
> "The government believes that if you are a gay man, your soul is that of a woman and you should change your body," Amin said.
> "We think this is a way [for them] to fight the existence of homosexual people because you change their body and you solve the problem.
> "The regime gives gay people two choices – to be arrested as a homosexual and risk punishment or even execution, or change your body."
> Government data shows that around 4000 gender reassignment surgeries are performed in Iran each year.
> Amin, however, claims that those numbers are actually much higher in reality.
> "They are trying to cleanse the country of homosexuals," she added.
> "They would rather carry out mass surgeries than executions because they know the world is watching them."
Well, if they were actually progressive, they'd realize that not every homosexual wants to be a god damn woman. I'll admit it's definitely not the most progressive take on things. However, it's at least more progressive than just killing them, which is what we find elsewhere in the region and would have expected from Iran no less.
> (...) that prediction isn't as absurd as you intended.
These predictions may seem absurd at first glance, but I assure you, they're not, to me at least.