Yes, There Are Transpeople In The Middle East

[Shana A]

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Yes, There Are Transpeople In The Middle East
Posted by Monica Roberts at 7:05 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/02/yes-there-are-transpeople-in-middle.html

When I say that being transgender is a worldwide issue, I'm not kidding about that.

While the peeps in Europe, the Americas and Asia get far more publicity and attention, the African continent beyond South Africa is beginning to get on the radar screen of transgender visibility and so is the Middle East.

Israel's Dana International may be the most well known of the Middle Eastern transwomen thanks to her 1999 win in the Eurovision song contest along with Turkey's Bulent Ersoy, but there are transgender people in Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, and the various Arab Persian Gulf states as well.