Transsexualism in Iran.

There have been 2 articles in this week's Guardian regarding Iran and changing sex, go to www.guardian.co.uk and put iran and sex-change into the search and they will magically appear.

What astonished me is that homosexuality is illegal in Iran and has been punished by hanging, yet transsexualism is seen as a medical condition which offers reassignment surgery on the state. Apparently they do more 'sex-change' ops than anywhere else except Thailand.

While I am pleased that they cater for GID, the homophobia is bizarre, especially given current medical thinking that it is an alternative life style and probably genetic in origins, similar thinking applies to transsexualism, so perhaps we should be grateful that no mention of GID appeared in the Bible or Koran.

Angharad.