• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Ooh I actually have a cool example about last “shariah is just a law” part.

    Islam is very much flexible in topic of health and you are allowed to use haram items like pork or alcohol products in medicine if no other options available.

    Here is the cool part, even tho culturally there is still a lot of pushback and problems, gender dysphoria still falls under “health” and therefore treatments are protected under shariah.

    Hence wikipedia articles like Transgender Rights in Iran have very surprising starts.

    Before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the issue of transgender identity in Iran had never been officially addressed by the government.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, however, transgender individuals were officially recognized by the government, under condition of undergoing sex reassignment surgery, with some financial assistance being provided by the government for the costs of surgery, and with a change of sex marker on birth certificates available post-surgery.
Iran allows people who identify as female to participate in women's sports if they have had genital reassignment surgery.
However, substantial legal and societal barriers exist in Iran. Transgender individuals who do not undergo surgery have no legal recognition and
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