365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(London) While Iran criminalizes homosexuality with the penalty death, it at the same provides sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals according to a British report.
The Guardian’s Tehran correspondent, reports that 25 years ago, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, passed a fatwa, or religious proclamation saying that transsexuality was a medical condition that could be corrected through surgery.
Since then the government authorized thousands of reassignment surgeries the Guardian reports.
Under Sharia, or Islamic law, homosexuality is a moral choice and punishable by hanging.