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1980s Iran was onto something rule (lemmy.world)
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I noticed HRT is technically allowed and debatebly encouraged under Shariah so am now reading wikipedia articles about Trans rights in Iran

Before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the issue of transgender identity in Iran had never been officially addressed by the government. Beginning in the mid-1980s, however, transgender individuals were officially recognized by the government, under condition of undergoing sex reassignment surgery, with some financial assistance being provided by the government for the costs of surgery, and with a change of sex marker on birth certificates available post-surgery. Iran allows people who identify as female to participate in women's sports if they have had genital reassignment surgery. However, substantial legal and societal barriers exist in Iran. Transgender individuals who do not undergo surgery have no legal recognition and
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[–] [S] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Not really? 1980s trans rights movements in Iran were mainly spearheaded by the activist "Maryam Khatoon Molkara" who convinced the supreme leader of then that gender reassignment surgery should be a religious right.

She is a really cool figure to learn about btw. Continued advocating for Iranian trans rights after that.

And yes there was and is still a shit ton of discrimination, even for people that have lots of connections.

There is still extremely violent oppression to gay people for example so they often havs to go through sex-reassignment surgery as a depressing-that-this-is-needed loophole.

I am not trying to paint Iran like some form of "misunderstood lgbtq+ paradise," they are not that.

Simply wanted to mention there are in fact progressive movements there. A lot of people seem to believe in "all brown people are religious extremists."

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Yes, really.

    in Iran, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. But the government has provided a way out for the nation’s gays and lesbians: a sex-change operation. Fully paid for by the state, the procedure would allow these people to conform to Iran’s theocratic standards of sexuality.

    a culture so steeped in hatred of gays and lesbians that it deems a sex change preferable to simply accepting differences in sexual orientation. The shift in policy came more than two decades ago, when Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini issued a fatwa (religious decree) declaring sex changes permissible for “diagnosed transsexuals.”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20090416140030/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2008/08/26/f-homosexuality-iran-sex-change.html

    A lot of people seem to believe in "all brown people are religious extremists."

    I do not believe that all brown people are religious extremists, but this is an extremely poor example to use for proving this misguided belief wrong, because it is actually an example of religious extremism.

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