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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

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 this, but this is an extremely poor example to use for proving this misguided belief wrong, because it is actually an example of religious extremism.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah you replied just as I was fixing my comment. It's fucking dystopian yes, but this was not "the reason Iran got sex-reassignment surgery."