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Andrew Sullivan

An insight into the homophobia that can fuel transitions of gay men and gender-non-conforming boys.

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Excellent and chilling BBC documentary on gay men being pressured to have sex change surgery in Iran: youtube.com/watch?v=Wg51Rn

7:26 PM · Jul 12, 2022

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Yikes. I never thought I’d say this but similar to what’s happening here.

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@PrfndContender

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Never accuse anyone else of bad faith ever again.

Shirtless in Seattle

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If gender is a continuum, how can a person be gender-non-conforming?

@MerkinMuffley5

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How is a documentary about cis gay people refusing to have sex change operations even when threatened with execution evidence that a bunch of cis gay men are doing this unprompted?

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There is no analog to this in the US, though. There’s no conservative, religious element that prefers trans people to gay people. Also, trans advocacy in the US is not rooted in homophobia.

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