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I found it profoundly disturbing but compelling viewing.
Angharad.
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I can't see the video
I can't see the video, it said that only the UK can view it. I realy hate when website does that.
They're only following
Intellectual rights laws there... Some (if not all) the material is only "licensed" for viewing inside the UK... And they have a way to mostly inforce it. If you want to see it, you have to find a way to give yourself a UK IP, or remote desktop (or some such) to control a PC with a UK IP.
Yes, well, they call it the
Yes, well, they call it the WWW, but it really isn't. I first knew of web censorship when I went to Thailand. There you can't get Youtube, but you can get all sorts of Indi programing that I can not get in the states. Freedom is only an illusion. Did someone already say that?
To my greater surprise, when I got home and knew site URLs, they just did not work the same here as they did in Thailand. Pablum for the Masses. It makes the world feel like the movie "V for Vendetta" or "Rainbow Girl" right here on BC.
Any how I googled my way into a similar article.
I had tried to go to Iran for my SRS, being a Muslim at the time, but found it almost imposible to get the information to do so. At that point in my life, I did not care if I survived the operation or got killed afterward. Not a good place to be.
Gwen
BBC Int'l
Searching the International site, which we lot here in N. Amer. can get to, I did find an old audio piece on transexuals in Iran from 2005. Posted on Valentine's Day that year, no less.
I Can't See It Either
But I have read in the International Herald Tribune that the regime we would normally think of as repressive has taken a remarkably liberal attitude to transsexualism in Iran,
Joanne
It's their way of dealing with effeminate men
they spoke to three pre ops, all of whom said they wouldn't have surgery if they had a choice. They won't allow males to wear female clothes except when they have been scheduled for surgery. Then they have to go and see some tin pot local government official.
Wasn't very impressed with the surgeon who seemed to only have a rudimentary grasp of the psychology involved.
They get around the religio-legal aspect because it isn't forbidden in the Q'oran. Again the thinking is fudged. They do however fund half the cost of the surgery. However, don't consider a regime which executes gay men, simply for doing what is natural to them, as liberal - it is far from it.
Many of the post-op women end up as prostitutes, which they get around by having temporary marriages - talk about religio-legal convenience/ double standards!
Few were happy because they were subsequently shunned by their families.
Angharad
Angharad
Iran forced Transexualism
They force homosexuals to choose which of them will transition if they don't they get stoned to death. Nice choice.
Anyway, it is a way to stamp out the gay population in Iran. I guess it is a plus if you are trangendered, but if you are homosexual then you're screwed because one partner MUST choose to go through with the surgery if they wish to remian together or they can choose to get stoned to death together.
Homosexuality is not served by having one partner go through transition, that will not allow them to have their homosexual relationship any longer.
males wishing to be females is one thing, forcing homosexuals to make this choice is another, don't you think?
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
What really horrified me ...
...wasn't so much the way it treats homosexual men (as if that wasn't bad enough) but the whole idea of living under a theocratic government. The smug young woman who claimed it was her 'duty' to know who was male and who was female, for instance.
I'm an atheist and would prefer what I regard as religious myths, to become historical curiosities (as many of them already are) but people can believe what they like as long as they don't try to use their beliefs to govern my behaviour.
Geoff