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Iran inflicts this as a punishment for homosexual men: https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/02/22/iran-gay-forced-gender-reassignment-surgery-the-sun https://www.th

Iran inflicts this as a punishment for homosexual men: https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/02/22/iran-gay-forced-gender-reassignment-surgery-the-sun https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/02/22/iran-gay-forced-gende... From the article: > 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."

pcthrowaway 3y ago
If you had asked me which country provides free gender reassignment surgery for hetero trans-women, Iran would not have been anywhere in my guesses
- fennecfoxy 3y ago
  As a gay man I was surprised at this too, but really it's probably because it conveniently provides a means for them to convert a man to a woman, who has much fewer rights/power in their world. I wonder if they would be as friendly to the idea of FtM trans surgeries where a man who is born as a woman would "gain" rights (in their eyes). I find it so sad though, that gay men are forced to undergo reassignment in order to survive there, rather than be able to celebrate both being gay and their own masculinity - it's taking "being gay, a man who likes men" away from gay men, there.

pcthrowaway 3y ago

If you had asked me which country provides free gender reassignment surgery for hetero trans-women, Iran would not have been anywhere in my guesses

fennecfoxy 3y ago
As a gay man I was surprised at this too, but really it's probably because it conveniently provides a means for them to convert a man to a woman, who has much fewer rights/power in their world. I wonder if they would be as friendly to the idea of FtM trans surgeries where a man who is born as a woman would "gain" rights (in their eyes). I find it so sad though, that gay men are forced to undergo reassignment in order to survive there, rather than be able to celebrate both being gay and their own masculinity - it's taking "being gay, a man who likes men" away from gay men, there.