An interesting piece! Apart from Islamic Rules, the body politics issue in Iran has its origin mostly in the cultural codes of behavior. There are many irreligious peoples who can’t consider changing sex as a normal phenomenon because of their cultural roots. For example, you can’t believe that how much I myself as an Iranian man goggled when a few years ago I discovered that Mr. Donald McCloskey has became Mrs. Deirdre McCloskey or that how much is exclamatory now that I am reading her _Crossing: A Memoir_. These wonderments have not their origin so much in religion (I have no religion) as in the cultural background. Therefore, it seems to me that the obstacles in the changing sex in Iran are in the society itself rather than in political scene in which the theocratic government is dominant. Of course, this is not the case for Hijab as an incarnation of Islamic body politics in Iran.
M. M.
"Changing Sex, Changing Islam" (In Iran, transsexuals, changing sex, have been changing Islam as well, under its still theocratic government): <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/changing-sex-changing-islam.html>. -- Yoshie
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