Iran performed over 1,000 gender reassignment operations in four years

[Shana A]

Iran performed over 1,000 gender reassignment operations in four years
Iranian news services reports that well over a thousand gender reassignment operations have been carried out between 2006 and 2010
04 December 2012 | By Dan Littauer

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/iran-performed-over-1000-gender-reassignment-operations-four-years041212

State medical records indicate that from 2006 to 2010, 1,366 Iranians acquired permits to undergo sex change operations.

Khabar-on-line reported on Monday that 56 percent were seeking male-to-female surgery and 44 percent were female-to-male operations.

[Joelene9]

  Not surprising.  Ayatollah Khomeini stated in his book in 1963 that corrective surgery for the transsexuals was not an affront against Islam.  About the same time I saw Christine Jorgenson on a live TV interview.  It took a few years after the revolution for transgender people were not classed in the same vein as homosexuals nor crossdressers.  Iran still hangs the latter two. 

  Joelene