Posted on 08/01/2015 8:40:43 AM PDT by RightGeek
Born with female anatomy, Alex had recently begun hormone therapy and decided to fully transition to a male identity. And as he entered his second adolescence, he had decided to rededicate himself to a life as a practicing Muslim. On most days, he returned three times a day for prayer.
Alex is aware of media reports that naively heralded Iran as an affirming place for transgender people in the wake of the 1987 decision by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini allowing gender-reassignment surgery. Iran is now the second-largest center for the procedure behind Thailand, according to some estimates.
"Those decisions just allow them to 'fix' people and say that they don't have gay people," Alex says. "It's because they are so conservative, not because they are liberal in any way. They would never allow someone like me: a trans man who is sexually attracted to men and women and trans men and trans women."
Over potato tacos at Gracias Madre, a chic vegan Mexican restaurant in the Mission District, Alex prepared for what he worried might be a hard conversation with his grandmother.
"I think I joked, 'What, you want to be a man?' And when the answer was 'yes,' I understood, because I once did too," Jazmine Bergeron, 60, says.
Jazmine, whose mother was Japanese and father was a French Jew, dated girls in her teens and briefly considered living as a man when she turned 13. Instead, she married a devout Muslim man when she was 19 and gave birth to Alex's mother, Sugako, at 20.
Jazmine went on to become a prominent activist for multiracial Asian lesbians in San Francisco...
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Yep. The story says she and her mother had to wear hijabs that covered them completely with only their eyes showing. Maybe that type of treatment explains why she grew up wanting to be a man.
San Francisco badly needs a destructive earth quake
She didn’t want to wear the hijab so decided to dress like a man.
"...decided to fully transition to a male identity.
There's got to be a camel toe joke in that....
Why is this happening now? Growing up we were boys and girls. What changed?
Why not just marry four 8 year old girls and beat them silly?
This guy is going for the PC sweepstakes
Muslim?
Meth Addict?
Lesbian?
Trans-gender?
Multi-racial?
lives in SF?
homeless?
Insulted by police after 9/11?
Check, check, and check! His score is going to be tough to beat!
Got to get those punctuation rules down before you do anything drastic. Maybe it would clear things up.
Another one of those ‘Jewish Muslims’.
Some people live life at a level of confusion that I myself could never handle. I’d jump off the Driscoll Bridge if I were this confused.
Apparently sex changes are not prohibited in Islam. Does Iran force gay men to undergo such surgery?
Confused? Of course you’re confused. That’s the whole point.
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