It’s illegal to be LGBTQ in Iran, but gender reassignment surgeries are not just legal, they are encouraged, according to Iranian medical experts. Fariba Nawa has the story of one person who didn’t fit the binary system she was born into in Iran, and escaped to Turkey, where she’s become an activist for women’s and LGBTQ people’s rights in Iran.
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