Be glad you live elsewhere-Interview with an Iranian transgender

[TheSkronkDonkey]

Yes, a very compelling read.

The interview subject touches many bases, and virtually all seem underpinned by the inequities of religion, especially the religion known as Islam, which has a long history, past and present, of gross intolerance towards anyone or anything that doesn't have a penis and identify themselves as male in the broadest terms possible.

Some interesting points in that interview include:

- The concept that many homosexuals may be having surgery to lessen the burden of being gay. According to the interviewee, liking members of the same sex and gender may bring even more agony and suffering than "merely" being trans.

- The concept that a female who transitions to a male may also suffer less agony and suffering, both biologically and sociologically, than a female who transitions to a male. The interviewee speculates that this is because a male-dominated society means that men are more "valuable" than women.

- Not so much a point or a concept, or anything new, sadly, but just to note the staggering corruption that exists at every level of the legal system and in health/medicine in places like Turkey and Iran. As bad as things are in the West, in the good ol' Middle East, everything is all that and more.

- Again, not really a point or a concept, but I hope that that person has survived (transcript is dated July 2007), and is now living, or about to be living, in Canada, as they indicated they were making arrangements for.