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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a story I heard second hand. Have not verified it cause Iranian history gives me a headache.

After the revolution Khomeini started persecuting minorities and women, despite having promised not to.

Some trans woman kept going to his house and harassed him until he agreed to at least keep protections for trans people.

Iran is the odd one out of middle eastern countries where it thinks being gay is abhorrent but being trans means you're defective and need the appropriate healthcare. Not that public healthcare in Iran is great. And people are still transphobic.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

ha, no.

if youre gay you get murdered unless you capitulate to surgery. this is just that terrible regime forcing surgery on people who dont want it but also dont want to die. it has nothing to do with trans protections/rights/whatevs

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Aren't homosexual men forced to surgically transition or be put to death?

[–] SlothMama 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The conceptual framework is entirely different though. It's regarded as a treatment for homosexuality at worst, or at best medical treatment of a birth defect.

Iran isn't a hub for transgender surgery because they have the same idea about what transgender means as the US does, it's more like they accept the idea that some men were supposed to be born as women and they concede it to be a medical issue that demands treatment.

My words aren't explaining it the best, but I'm familiar with the mentality and the ideas that prop up that mentality.

[–] cheese_greater 5 points 1 month ago

It blows my mind how they stumble ass-backwards into—gasp! A nuanced, partially-reasonable understanding

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