Transsexual In Iran!

[Fabregas]

Shias and Iranians........Wa dad lala yaabo...

[Geel_jire]

I heard that this problem is also exists in India, Pakistan and Iran.

 

In India and Pakistan the government pays for their housing because they can no longer live with their families, but on Thursdays they are let loose into the general public for tuugsi

[Aaliyyah]

Gross

[Ms DD]

I missed a lot last night it seems. I hope there is a repeat on the snake programme.

[Centurion]

I thought it was fascinating

 

The clerics' logic was very interesting as well, The crux of their argument was that God allows us to change the nature of his creations, we are allowed to change wheat to flour so then we must be allowed to change man to woman.

First of all, how can he compare a food to the human being? Secondly if God allows us to change our nature, then why should he ban Homosexuality?

If having intimate relations with the same sex is unnatural, then what is gender reassignment?

 

Then there are the social issues; what is amazing is that Homosexuality is the worst thing an Iranian can do, even according to the transexuals in the documentary (one of them said she would never befriend one)but when it comes to transsexuals, the immediate family disown them whilst society more or less tolerates them. The public trusts the judgement of their clerics, and this fact is used by one of the older transsexuals to persuade the family of another transexual about to undergo the operation.

[N.O.R.F]

Originally posted by GJ_Goate:

Shias and Iranians........Wa dad lala yaabo...

True.

 

Ngonge, my guess is that the programme set out to highlight 'progress' in Iran with regards to such issues. These programmes are very popular these days and always set out to create a 'hey look they are progressing as a society by tolerating gays more etc'.

 

If only they covered what happened in Egypt last week

[Ms DD]

What happened in Egypt?

[NGONGE]

^^ Not at all. There was more of a whiff of disapproval at the way things were done. If anything, the show was attempting to illustrate how backward and unjust Iran was.

[Fabregas]

I swear the Everton-Man city match was on at that time? I don't have sky.........so i watched a bit of this Persian programme and caught an awesome sight of a snake that lied an ambush( like they do in the military) behind a tree and literally swallowed a rodent!.........

[Khayr]

Originally posted by NGONGE:

Watched this last night

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Mon 25 Feb, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins

 

In Iran homosexuality is punishable by death, yet sex change operations are not only legal but are sanctioned by Islamic law. Iranian-American filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian was given access to a leading gender reassignment clinic in Tehran and her film, Transsexual In Iran is an intimate and revealing film of the pressures that drive many young Iranians to extreme solutions.

 

Sex changes have been legal in Iran since the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, passed a fatwa authorising them nearly 25 years ago. Today, Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except Thailand, with the government providing up to half the cost for those needing financial assistance. In the film the religious cleric responsible for gender reassignment says Islam has no trouble justifying the operation. It is no more a sin than changing wheat to flour to bread..

 

Transsexual In Iran follows a number of young men facing-up to stark choices and challenges of gender reassignment. For many, daily harassment and the threat of arrest by the morality police add an element of fear and a pressure to conform, even as they struggle to reconcile their sexual identities with the wishes of their families and communities.

 

According to Dr Bahram Mir-Jalali, Iran's most prominent sex-change surgeon, none of his patients have regretted their decision to proceed with surgery. He claims to have conducted in excess of 450 gender reassignment operations in 12 years. Yet, as the film reveals, there is a darker side to this picture. The pressure of life as a transsexual in Iran means that the only option for many is this radical surgery. Many do it reluctantly and face decisions that some ultimately live to regret. Adult themes. [AD,S]

 

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You do the math:

 

• Iran's most prominent sex-change surgeon, none of his patients have regretted their decision to proceed with surgery. He claims to have conducted in excess of 450 gender reassignment operations in 12 years.

 

• Population of Iran - 65,397,521

Hardly, an issue, even if we were to multiple that number 100 fold over a 30year span.

 

The Imam's ruling was based on physiological issues. e.g. someone born with both genitals (male and female) and not psychological or personal perference circumstances.

 

 

The real question that should be asked is this:

 

Who benefits from such skewed news reporting?

[NGONGE]

^^ The viewers?

 

Oh! Silly me. This is another of your conspiracy theories, right?

[Geel_jire]

Khayr has a good point.

 

There are provisions for people who are born with hermaphroditism in Fiqh in issues that are relavent to Gender such as Inheritance , Qisaas etc.

 

but for a healthy man to be changed into a woman there is no excuse, and why is that the norm while you hardly hear woman changing to men ???

[Caano Geel]

come on people your letting yourselves down. whats wrong, i was certain some one would relate the quake to the broadcasting of that show!

[-Lily-]

^^^loooooooool, war istaqfurulleyso!

 

GJ, I'm sure they won't allow a woman to become a man even if she wanted to.

[Faynuus]

Kuwaas islaamnimo ka fog agtooda.