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  • kristina [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    It is my understanding that Iran covers costs of transition whereas Israel doesn't because their definition of gender dysphoria is too strict. Until earlier this year, Israel authorized only one guy for bottom surgeries for trans women, so the wait lists are very long. In 2008, the BBC claimed Iran carried out the second most sex change operations in the world behind Thailand.

    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      Iran carried out the second most sex change operations in the world behind Thailand.

      We should share that factoid more often, learning that muh Iran islamist dictatorship has better trans policies than any of their oh so grand democracies would fry a lot of liberal brain.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Iran does it because they think it cures homosexuality lol

        • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 months ago

          Ok, but still, pointing out that none of the western countries can be bothered to have better trans care than Iran would either make them think or cope and seethe.

        • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          It's strange, of course the context is important and can't be ignored by pointing to figures without explanation. Yet if LIB have a greater understanding and it comes from the right place, what good reason could there be for a lack of progress on their end? That there is too much freedom and that means certain fundamental rights and unambiguous (scientifically speaking, ofc scientific consensus at one point in the past had conversion therapy as its preferred method, there can be deferral to moral and ethical considerations in such cases) truths get caught in the crossfire because of freeze-peach

          The more I try to think about it the more contradictions there are...