Pri is a Prott: The Stggle for Gay Rights Iran – NIAC

Contents:

• IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN
• PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN
• THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE ARE BEG FORCED TO UNRGO GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY IRAN FOR A VILE REASON
• Y, THERE ARE GAY PEOPLE IRAN
• WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN
• HBO'S VICE UNVERS GAY IRANIANS FORCED TO SURGILLY CHANGE GENR
• REPORT: GAY IRANIANS COERCED INTO GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY

IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN

However, proment LGTB activists have told Sun Onle that the procr are part of a disturbg programme fuelled by homophobia. Iranian-born activist Shadi Am says the Iranian regime, which is ntrolled by relig extremists, view beg gay as an “illns” and that the only cure is to change the person’s genr.

PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN

The LGBT rearcher says that Iranian ernment, cludg the Head of the Human Rights missn of Iran, has publicly said "we want to solve the problem, gay people are sick and they need the physil treatment. He told Sun Onle: “The ayatollah’s are seekg to elimate homosexualy by prsurg or forcg gay men to unrgo genr reassignment surgery to make them ‘women’. MYTH: Beliefs graed Iranian culture manift an ultranservative and aggrsive ernment approach to homosexualy and non-bary genr inty.

Government polici persecute both homosexuals and transgenr dividuals alike for their sexualy and genr intifitn, crimalizg same-sex relatns and genr reassignment Iran has mataed and pursued polici which nmn and harshly punish homosexualy, a practice wily, and appropriately, cricized as a human rights vlatn. Iranian Treatment of HomosexualsDpe cricism om other natns and human rights anizatns, the Islamic Republic of Iran has mataed s practice of nmng same-sex relatns as illegal and morally rpt.

The Iranian Penal Co prohibs all sexual activy outsi of the stutn of marriage, same-sex relatns, and LGBT-related media, wh the ath penalty beg one form of punishment for homosexualy. Temporary marriage ntracts are one exceptn which prents a way to have legal relatns, but homosexuals are not afford this optn. Zarif argued that the moral prcipl that gui Iranian ernance nmn homosexual behavr jt as they nmn other personal actns and life choic; therefore punishment for such choic, cludg punishment by executn, is lawful and substantiated.

THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE ARE BEG FORCED TO UNRGO GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY IRAN FOR A VILE REASON

Michael Roth, Germany’s Mister of State the Feral Foreign Office at the time, claimed, “No relig, cultural or ethnic tradn jtifi state persecutn, let alone the executn of homosexuals.

Ambassador to Germany at the time of Zarif’s remarks, joed Roth his opposn to the treatment and argued that the executns go agast the UN Universal Declaratn of Human Rights, which clearly tails crimalizatn of homosexualy as a vlatn. Grenell’s sentiments were a ntuatn of the Tmp admistratn’s mpaign which lnched Febary of 2019 to crimnalize homosexualy var natns cludg Iran and lled on global anizatns like the UN and EU ntribute to the rights have been opposn to the Iranian Penal Co sce the 1930s when Parliament passed legislatn crimalizg such relatnships, and disapproval of this discrimatn has tensified over time. Psychologil profsnals Iran unsel homosexual dividuals to treat their “sexual viancy, ” and even former print Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly nied the existence of sexual mori Iran 2007.

All of this culmat to make Iran one of the most discrimatory untri toward homosexuals the world, wh Iran havg executed an timated 4, 000 to 6, 000 homosexual dividuals sce the 1979 Islamic Revolutn.

Y, THERE ARE GAY PEOPLE IRAN

Moreover, enforcement of this law is ongog, and occurs perdilly wh very publicized exampl, as January 2019, when a 31-year-old man was publicly hanged after beg nvicted guilty of homosexual relatns. Sce nsensual homosexual relatnships are punishable by public executns, the measur also serve a sendary purpose for the Iranian ernment, which is to timidate cizens to not g out.

Genr Assignment IranGiven the severe and dranian ernment polici towards homosexualy Iran, is perhaps suprisg that genr reassignment and the existence of of transgenr dividuals Iran is legally supported. Though personal and societal judgement agast transgenr people Iran is - as many untri - persistant and pervasive, the broar ia of beg transgenr is not nsired a vlatn of Iranian theocratic prcipl, and the ernment do not view such dividuals as they do homosexuals.

WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY IRAN

Most relig lears only accept those non-bary dividuals who fully plete the transn operatn, while those who do not are perceived as “sick” and n still be arrted for cross-drsg and other stereotypilly homosexual practic. Dpe formal support of transgenr people by the ernment, dividuals are still faced wh discrimatn and persecutn by private cizens and dividuals their personal liv, an experience siar to that of homosexuals Iran.

It is clear that the support iated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomei s ago and the advantage of the clivy of the Persian language provi foundatnal stutnal acceptance of trans cizens Iran, but there are still steps that mt be taken to promote social approval and cultural rporatn of the non-bary Intersectn of Authorized Genr Surgery and Iran’s Homosexual TreatmentWh the approach to both homosexualy and transgenr cizens Iran tablished, a rrelatn between the two to light. Wh an tense foc on the necsy of sex-reassignment surgery, the applitn of this operatn as a solutn is often over-extend, and the ncept of genr dysphoria is prumed te of homosexual dividuals. Both homosexuals and transgenr people are viewed as havg a mental illns, a diagnosis which advot applitn of the genr reassignment operatn, even when do not rrelate wh the dividual’s intifitn.

Homosexuals phed towards this as a treatment are left wh few optns due to the legal support of hormone treatments, psychotherapy, and full transnal operatns; th, many are faced wh eher endurg the promoted medil approach or fleeg the untry to seek polil asylum a natn wh different legal thorizatn of genr reassignment reprents signifint progrs and support for the transgenr populatn, n also unfortunately be ed agast the already persecuted mographic of homosexuals Iran.

HBO'S VICE UNVERS GAY IRANIANS FORCED TO SURGILLY CHANGE GENR

Gog forward, further progrs would ially see treatment of homosexual dividuals posively renciled wh natnal and cultural ials. The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charg related to vlatns of Iran’s anti-gay laws, acrdg to the state-ntrolled Iranian Stunts’ News unintified man was hanged on January 10 the southwtern cy of Kazeroon based on crimal vlatns of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual terurse between two men, as well as kidnappg charg, acrdg to ISNA. “Next time Foreign Mister Zarif speaks Washgton, the host and dience should ask him why his regime is one of the top executner of gays the world.

”Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 1979. “Iran is not only the most dangero threat to Israel’s secury, is also a champn the state murr of actual or perceived homosexuals, ” said Volker Beck, a German Party Green Party polician and a lecturer at the Center for Studi Relig Scienc (CERES) at the Ruhr Universy Bochum.

REPORT: GAY IRANIANS COERCED INTO GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY

” The statement about cizens of Kazeroon uld not be penntly 2016, The Jesalem Post reported Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to M.