DEATH TO GAYS BUT FREE OPS FOR IRANI TRANNIES

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DEATH TO GAYS BUT FREE OPS FOR IRANI TRANNIES

By LUKAS I. ALPERT, NY Post

February 7, 2008 -- Iran has been called many things, but a progressive nation isn't one of them.

But while bearded morality police race around the nation condemning homosexuals to death and flogging women whose headscarves they deem too revealing, the fervently conservative Islamic republic is happy to pay for transsexuals to undergo sex-change operations.

"[They] are not to blame," Hassan Moussavi Chalak of Iran's State Welfare Organization told Bloomberg News. "They have rights such as every other citizen."

So the government plans to spend $650,000 this year on the procedures.

Dr. Bahram Mir Jalali is one of 10 sex-change doctors in the country and says he has performed more than 460 operations in the past 12 years.

The fanatical religious government authorized the operations in 1984 when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a decree deeming transsexuals to be people who are "trapped" in the wrong body.

Some experts call the approach "enlightened thinking."