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With regard to the issue of sex change, Ayatollah Khomeini had expressed his opinion as early as 1964 in his Arabic master treatise Tahrir al-wasila, in which he had elaborated that sex change was permissible in Islam. Twenty years later, in 1984, this time in Persian and as the supreme political authority of the new state, he reissued this earlier opinion in response to a transwoman’s plea. From the late 1980s through the 2000s, legal, biomedical, and psychiatric authorities worked closely with specialized clerics to carve out legal and standardized procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of trans persons and to provide financial and social support for surgeries and care (chapter 5). Missing from the circulating accounts of this history, in official discourse as well as most documentaries, is the critical role of trans activists in this transformation.

Professing Selves -  Afsaneh Najmabadi

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