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To: JohnM who wrote (385641)	10/21/2018 1:23:39 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543106

I remember reading an interview with one of the leading Iranian clerics a few years ago. I'm sure google will help you, but there are also a few sites run by leading ayatollahs that answer religious questions. You can post the question to them and get the answer directly from the horse's mouth.

To: JohnM who wrote (385641)	10/21/2018 1:23:40 PM
From: abuelita	Respond to of 543106

here are several google.com

To: JohnM who wrote (385641)	10/21/2018 1:27:29 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543106

Things changed largely due to the efforts of Maryam Khatoon Molkara. Molkara was fired from her job, forcibly injected with male hormones and put in a psychiatric institution during the 1979 revolution. But thanks to her high-level contacts among Iran’s influential clerics, she was able to get released. Afterwards, she worked with several religious leaders to advocate for trans rights and eventually managed to wrangle a meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini, the “supreme leader” of Iran at the time. Molkara and her group were able to eventually convince Khamenei to pass a fatwa in 1986 declaring gender-confirmation surgery and hormone-replacement therapy religiously acceptable medical procedures. Essentially, Molkara, the Iranian religious leaders she worked with, and the Iranian government had reframed the question of trans people. Trans people were no longer discussed as or thought of as deviants, but as having a medical illness (gender identity disorder) with a cure (sex reassignment surgery). qz.com