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Our World: Iran's Sex Change Solution

Iran's Sex Change Solution

08/11/2014

BBC News Channel - Our World, Iran's Sex Change Solution

Our World meets LGBT exiles who fled Iran in fear of being forced to change gender.

Ali Hamedani visits Turkey to meet LGBT exiles who have fled Iran in fear of being forced to change gender.

In Iran, the government denies the existence of homosexuality - being gay there can be punishable by death. But the state does offer a solution - a sex change operation paid for by the government. The pressure on gay Iranians to agree to a sex change as a cure for their homosexuality can be overwhelming. Reporter Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet LGBT exiles who have fled Iran in fear of being forced to change sex.

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