Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran
by: Afsaneh Najmabadi Introduction Something happened in 2003-04: transsexuals and transsexuality in Iran suddenly became a hot media topic, both in Iran and internationally. The medical practice of sex-change by means of surgery and hormones dates to at least the early 1970s in Iran; for nearly three decades the topic had received occasional coverage in [...]
