But Motamedian, who is best known in Iran for theater work, insists the problems they face are universal to transsexuals anywhere in the world: finding their identity and seeking acceptance from their families.

not quite. One of the scandals in Iran is that, because homosexuality is punishable by death, many homosexuals will opt to change gender in order to be able to express their sexuality.

I cannot begin to name the number of ways in which this is wrong. Most men are wired up to be men, to have testosterone flowing through their bodies. Oestrogen, and the absence of testosterone, messes them up in exactly the same way, testosterone and the absence of oestrogen did me. It makes you miserable. So, of course, there's a lot of unhappiness there, even if they get to express their sexuality. This is because gender identity and sexuality are not related phenomena.

And of course, bloody western feminist transphobes seize of the misery this causes to argue all transexuality is prone to failure. Bitch bastard *£?@%^<s, all of them.

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