Iran set to allow first transsexual marriage

[Natasha]

Iran set to allow first transsexual marriage

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/iran-transexual-marriage
9/11/09

Iran is set to allow what is believed to be its first transsexual marriage after the would-be bride asked a court to override her father's opposition to the match.

The woman, named only as Shaghayegh, told Tehran's family court that she wanted to wed her best friend from school, who had recently undergone a sex-change operation to become a man, but was unable to obtain her father's blessing, as legally required.

[GinaDouglas]

I suspect that this is mis-reported.  Perhaps it is the first marriage for a FtM.

[placeholdername]

I suspect that this is mis-reported.  Perhaps it is the first marriage for a FtM.

From what I've read, transexualism is actually somewhat embraced in Iran as they (the government/religious leaders) find it a preferable alternative to homosexuality.  Unfortunately this leads to homosexual people getting sex changes so that they can be with the 'proper' gender without being executed for it.

Some of us choose death rather than living in the wrong gender, others choose living in the wrong gender rather than death.  The world is pretty screwed up.