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transphobic swine using the transgender hashtags on your hateful posts GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU ASS I hope you have a shit life you dumb fuck
Coming out culture is western propaganda ladies, don't fall for it!! Openess amongt our people is not just "enough", not just survival. It is itself beautiful. Being hidden is different from feeling shame. Being private is not self hate. Our lives, what we share and what we don't, it's up to ourselves. We live under different circumstances and we should never model our lives after how the westerns and kafirs live. Being closeted is a full life. Closeted is not denial. Deny who you are, and you will fall apart, that part is true. But looking in the mirror and saying "yes, this is me, now what will I do with it?" that is yours, yours yours yours, open to you, for YOU to figure out.
Some of this will be a for now, some will be a forever, we don't have to wait and cry and anguish over what is what or when things will happen. Politically, socially, religiously. We don't have to put live on pause until we have these answers. Life your life now. There will be no other time for you. And don't take on the weight of the world alone. Meet with people, people like you, have them close, dispense these conversations amongst each other. Yes we have to be brave, much braver than others, and yes, take some risks. But don't you for even a second think that happiness or completion will only come to you if all people know your story. We don't need the world or great masses. We need to know that somewhere close to us, there is someone who is alike. Someone somewhere close. Be it one or three of five or twenty. You need a someone, not the world.
Maryam Khatoon Molkara
DOB :1950
Known for :Iran's first Trans muslim woman who successfully change her gender legally.
Occupation :Trans Activist,Rights Advocate
Spouce :Mohammad
Religion :Islam
Gender :Woman
Sexuality :Straight
Ethnicity :Persian
Death :2012
Maryam Khatoon Molkara (also known as Maryam Khatoonpour Molkara) was a campaigner for trans rights in Iran, where she is widely recognized as a matriarch of the transgender community.She was later instrumental in obtaining a letter which acted as a Fatwa enabling sex reassignment surgery to exist as part of a legal framework.
Early life
Maryam Khatoon Molkara was born in 1950, she was the only child of her father's second of eight wives.Her father was a landowner. Maryam says she always preferred clothes, toys, & activities that were traditionally for girls.In her adolescence, Maryam went to parties dressed as a woman.She was often tortured & bullied for her feminine behavior. When she came out to her mother,her mother refused to accept Maryam's gender identity.This made her decide to take feminizing hormone, instead of immediately seeking out a gender affirming surgery.
Legal Recognition of Gender Identity in Iran
In 1975, Molkara traveled to London where she “learned about transsexuality & realized that she was not a passive homosexual. Molkara started to write letters to Shia Cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq, asking for religious advice about being assigned the wrong gender at birth.In one of these letters, she said that her gender identity had been clear since she was two years old, as she used to apply chalk to her face to imitate putting on make-up. Khomeini had already written in 1963 that corrective surgeries for intersex people are not against Islamic law, & his answer was based on this existing idea rather than developing a new fatwa for transgender people.He suggested she live as a woman, which included dressing as one.
After this, she met with Farah Pahlavi, who gave her support towards Molkara and other transgender individuals wanting sex reassignment surgery.In 1978, she traveled to Paris, where Khomeini was then based, to try to make him aware about transgender rights.After the Islamic Revolution, Molkara started to face intense backlash due to her gender identity. She underwent arrests, and death threats. She was fired from her job at the Iranian National Radio and Television, forced to wear masculine clothing,injected with male hormones against her will, & detained in a psychiatric institution. Eventually she was released from jail because of her good contacts with religious leaders, such as Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Molkara continued to campaign for her right to get gender-affirming surgery. In 1985, she confronted Khomeini in his home in North Tehran.She wore a man's suit, carried the Quran, and she tied shoes around her neck. This was a reference to the Ashura festival, and also indicated that she was looking for refuge.Maryam Khatoon Molkara was held back and beaten by homophobic security guards until Khomeini's brother Hassan Pasandide intervened.He took Molkara into his house, where she pleaded her case, yelling "I'm a woman, I'm a woman!" His security guards were suspicious about her chest, as they thought she could be carrying explosives.She revealed they were her breasts, as she developed them using hormone therapy.After listening her story, Ahmad Khomeini was touched & took Maryam to speak to his father, where he asked 3 of his doctors about the surgery in an attempt to make a well-informed decision.Khomeini then decided to permit sex reassignment surgery by issuing a fatwa.She left Khomeini’s house victoriously. She had a letter in her hand addressed to the Chief Prosecutor & the head of Medical Ethics giving a fatwa (a religious authorization) for her & for all those like her to have their gender surgically reassigned. That one daring step by Maryam changed the dynamics and made history in Shia Islam.
Maryam lobbied for the according medical knowledge & procedures to be implemented in Iran, and worked on helping other trans people have access to gender-affirmative surgeries.
However, Maryam completed her gender affirming surgery from Thailand in 1997, due to "unhappiness with procedures in her native country''.The Iranian govt paid for her surgery, and she was able to help establish government funding for many other trans individual's surgeries.
Trans Rights Adocacy
Maryam was a prominent advocate for trans rights & gender affirmative care.Maryam started her activism in Iran during the early days of the Islamic revolution.
In 2007, she founded and subsequently ran the Iranian Society to Support Individuals with Gender Identity Disorder (Persian: حمایت از بیماران مبتلا به اختلالات هویت جنسی ایران).This was the first state-approved transgender organization in Iran.Before this, she used her own property in Karaj to help other trans people receive legal advice & medical care, including post-op care.She continued her fight to advance the situation of transgender people in Iran.She also helped many incarcerated trans people in Iran.
Marriage
Maryam got married in a traditional Islamic way (nikah) to a government officer named Mohammad, in Tehran.
Death
Maryam Khatoon Molkara died in 2012, after suffering from a heart attack at the age of 62.
The 29-year-old is one of the protagonists in Yolande Zauberman's documentary 'La Belle de Gaza.' Presented in a special screening at Cannes before its theatrical release on May 29, the film examines the often tragic destinies of transgender women in Israel
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This is a drawing expressing my experience being trans. For a while the fact that i very much look like a cishet man who you should be uncomfortable around + living in Egypt where trans healthcare is essentially a myth was pretty saddening to say the least. Everytime i get out of the shower and try to do my hair, looking at my face in the mirror for extended amounts of time, would just make me feel bad as a harsh reminder
But recently ive been able to come to terms with it. My body may not be beautiful and i may not look like a woman, but thats okay because i know for sure i am a woman and all the people i truly care about know this truth too, and thats all that really matters to me on a personal level
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Cw: coming out thoughts
Today I was in the shower and happened to just start thinking of coming out on social media as trans-masc and let me tell you my whole brain and outlook has been feeling very different in a positive way. I never even write things anymore I stopped 4 years ago after some traumatic shit went down that maybe I’ll get into another time that feels right but god damn I want to remain empowered. And there’s still a lot of me that’s like coming out isn’t for everyone and may not solve anything and is sorely an outdated concept that only some people have the privilege of doing but for me maybe I’m willing to let go of a lot of things and see just what it is to lose everything in light of standing for my most authentic self. I truly wish there was just more examples or role models for me as a queer and trans Arab that I’m just like guess I don’t get to have that I just need to be that for someone else instead. And if it happens to be a member of my family I think that’s great. But if it’s just so happens to be anyone else at all but especially a younger person trying to find themselves then who am I failing by abiding the western concept of coming out. I’m just trying to make it less of the individualistic ritual that it’s become. What do our stories mean for our communities around us? What purpose does our visibility serve? Will it ever curb the unfathomable amount of systemic and pervasive violence we face? I’m afraid I’m so many cases we don’t know until we do it. Am I ready to be a voice in my community? Perhaps. Am I also being forced into this role of leadership as the lack of representation is obvious? Perhaps. Is this going to be a journey filled with too many questions that one self aware being can handle? Definitely. What I truly wish is just to be seen as my authentic self by those who actually care. It’s just hard at this point after feeling disconnected from community for a long long time and cutting ties with the wrong people. I will say I am tired. But as of lately I feel as though I’ve gotten a bit of my spirit back and that’s saying a lot. So anyway if you are reading this and you know me just understand this was never an easy decision that I made in one night but a life long internal conversation that more and more people are allowing to happen out loud. As we continue to live in a dying world I don’t know what’s more important to fight for than for autonomy. In all the forms you can think of. The trans experience is not singular and I will never tell my story as if it was. I Am because We Are. And we are many. Till I feel like rambling online again be well and don’t out your friends ✌️
Eden Knight, 23, had been living in the US until late last year
The Cairo 52 Legal Research Institute has unveiled the MENA Trans Archive, a new, free online archive focused on legal and sharia-law information for trans