EDITORIAL.- These days we have had news of a couple of Iranian transsexuals who, having both been born in bodies that were alien to them, ended up meeting and falling in love after their respective sex reassignments.
Is Fatemeh, a young woman of 22 years who was born as Ali in a very traditional and religious family that totally rejected that his boy son felt like a woman. "My father was an invalid of war and I saw my femininity as the greatest misfortune that could happen to us. My father's family came to threaten to kill me”Fatemeh remembers. Today and after having completed her sex reassignment operations two years ago, she works in theater and television and is happily married to Parham, who at 24 years old has had to go the opposite way to Fatemeh to become her husband since in her case she was born a woman. “I felt weird, my family didn't take me seriously and I thought it was the only case in the world”. But everything changed for the better when he met his wife through Mahtaa, a group that supports Iranian transsexuals.
But beyond the anecdote that involves the meeting of these two people after their respective sex changes, what is a paradox is the situation of tolerance that transsexuals live in Iran, a country where homosexuality is nevertheless very persecuted. That acceptance is based on a fetus that Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced in 1983 and that forces clerics and judges to support the processes of sex change.
All started when Maryam Hatun Molkara, a transsexual activist, visited Ayatollah Khomeini and presented her case, obtaining a pronouncement that would pave the way for the change of sex to the transsexuals of the Islamic Republic. Once pronounced that fetus or edicto initiated a protocol that evaluates transsexuals through a psychologist and if the report issued is positive, the Department of Forensic Medicine transfers the case to a medical committee to approve the intervention and support the corresponding registration before the court with the corresponding change of documentation.
In the absence of official data it is known that the Department of Forensic Medicine makes 10 years recognized 300 accepted cases, but transsexual support groups claim that today there are many more.
On the basis of tolerance is the fact that after their sex change people choose to maintain heterosexual relationships while the condemnation of homosexuality is absolute. We hope that one day a fetus respectful of the rights of gays and lesbians.
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