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Iran offers transgender foreigners surgery but forces operations on locals

While homosexuality remains harshly penalized in Iran – even by death – the government encourages and subsidizes gender-affirming procedures for those who identify as transgender. It now seeks to turn that medical infrastructure into a revenue stream amid economic strain from sanctions.

The push for medical tourism sits uneasily next to the coercive history of transgender surgery in Iran. For decades, the regime has pressured gay and gender-nonconforming individuals into surgery, under threat of punishment or execution.

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