A report issued by the State Department Thursday repeatedly refers to sex reassignment surgery in Iran as “gender-confirmation surgery.”
But Iran has a well-documented record of coercing cisgender gay and lesbian people into having the surgery, that is, disrupting rather than “confirming” the gender identity of hundreds per year. Since homosexuality can be punishable by death in Iran, known homosexual men tend to accept the government-subsidized surgery to become women, and vice versa. (RELATED: World’s Most Infamous Hookup App Catches On In Islamist Iran)
A 2014 report by the BBC profiled gay and lesbian people from Iran, several of whom were forced to undergo sex reassignment surgery. One person, born male, felt “physically damaged” after a doctor recommended hormone therapy and then surgery to become a woman.
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