Bloomberg.com – By Ladane Nasseri
Nasser didn’t think much of Iran’s Islamic regime – until it paid for him to become a woman.
Growing up in the city of Mashhad, Nasser knew he was different from the other boys, sneaking around in his aunt’s skirts and experimenting with makeup. At age 14, he told his parents he wanted to have a sex change.
“I realized that I had a problem and that I needed to solve it through an operation,” Nasser, now 18, says at a downtown Tehran clinic two days after he became a she called Hasti. “Even if lots of negative things are said about the regime, they also do things that are good.”