Secretary of State Kerry refrains from condemning forced sex reassignment surgeries in Iran

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2015-06-28 00:50

Story here. Excerpt:

'A report issued Thursday by the Department of State repeatedly refers to sex reassignment surgery in Iran as “gender-confirmation surgery.”

Speaking at the release of the State Department’s annual human rights report, Secretary of State John Kerry said of the designation that “There is nothing sanctimonious in this,” emphasizing the need for “humility” in the face of the U.S.’ own racial inequality. The State Department did not respond to a request for clarification by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Iran has a well-documented record of coercing gay and lesbian people into having the gender reassignment surgery, that is, disrupting rather than “confirming” the gender identity of hundreds per year. Since homosexuality can be punishable by death in Iran, known homosexual men tend to accept the government-subsidized surgery to become women, and vice versa.'

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In all the hoopla around the recent SCOTUS decision extending marriage rights for gay people in all 50 states, it is easy to forget how the US is officially overlooking the aggressive and in this case criminal persecution of gay people abroad. The thought of forcibly making someone change his sex (and it's mostly *his* sex forcibly changed we're talking about here, not *her* sex, regardless of what feminists might have you think) or die is a degree of surgically invasive blackmail that so attacks the very identity of another as to defy description. Nonetheless, it should hardly be glossed over by US officials in the name of diplomatic decorum much less anything else. And besides, why again do we care much about what the Iranian gov't think sof our opinion of them? Seems to me the tail's wagging the dog here.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2015-06-28 00:52