"Trans are soooooo persecuted! But at least they ain't homo!"
For a country that executes gay people, it offers a surprising procedure. But those going through it face unqualified doctors and humiliation.
Death or surgery? It’s a capital offence to be gay in Iran. But gender-change surgery is legal. Now, 4000 Iranians are undergoing the life-changing procedure every year. And many of them are children.
The plight of Iran’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) was brought back to the attention of the world after the belated arrest of a provincial “morality police” chief last month after video of him engaging in homosexual acts began circulating on social media.
Seven of his sexual partners were arrested immediately. Then, after six months of public outrage, Reza Seghati, the director general of the Office of the Ministry of Culture in Iran’s Gilan province, was detained.
Seghati was just one of a half-dozen similar exposes in the past year involving senior members of Iran’s clerical religious ruling class.
All now face death by public hanging. It’s too late for them to exploit a loophole in Sharia Law.
But for thousands of “in the closet” Iranian homosexuals and lesbians – an unwanted and unnecessary surgical procedure may save their lives.
For a country that executes gay people, it offers a surprising procedure. But those going through it face unqualified doctors and humiliation.
Death or surgery? It’s a capital offence to be gay in Iran. But gender-change surgery is legal. Now, 4000 Iranians are undergoing the life-changing procedure every year. And many of them are children.
The plight of Iran’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) was brought back to the attention of the world after the belated arrest of a provincial “morality police” chief last month after video of him engaging in homosexual acts began circulating on social media.
Seven of his sexual partners were arrested immediately. Then, after six months of public outrage, Reza Seghati, the director general of the Office of the Ministry of Culture in Iran’s Gilan province, was detained.
Seghati was just one of a half-dozen similar exposes in the past year involving senior members of Iran’s clerical religious ruling class.
All now face death by public hanging. It’s too late for them to exploit a loophole in Sharia Law.
But for thousands of “in the closet” Iranian homosexuals and lesbians – an unwanted and unnecessary surgical procedure may save their lives.
