‘Plastic’ explores the popularity of transsexual surgery in conservative Iran

”There was the sex change craze that started in Iran, and the fact that it was completely supported by the goverment, the Islamic government. I think it was in the early 1980s that the Ayatolla Khomeini gave a fatwa, legalizing the sex change… A few years later, all these men — some women as well — were expressing desire to have a sex change… Most of them tend to come from quite traditional families as well. So, suddenly, their parents, who are very tradtional — in their eyes, this is a

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