Iranian transgenders reclassified

[Shana A]

Iranian transgenders reclassified
by Rex Wockner
Bay Windows Contributor
Tuesday Jan 12, 2010

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=101038

Iran's military will no longer classify transgender people as "mentally disturbed," said Hasan Mousavi Chelk, who heads the Socially Vulnerable Groups section of the State Agency for National Well-Being.

Chelk said Jan. 6 that putting such a determination on transgender people's military discharge papers creates problems for them.