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Footballers in Iran's professional women's league are to undergo mandatory gender tests to establish that they are fully female.
The country's football governing body is bringing in the random checks after it was revealed that several leading players - including four in the national women's team - were either men who had not completed sex change operations, or were suffering from sexual development disorders.
Gender change operations are legal in Iran according to a fatwa - or religious ruling - pronounced by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The law contrasts with the strict rules governing sexual morality under the country's Sharia legal code, which forbids homosexuality and pre-marital sex.
butcherguy
reply to post by Trueman
looking at that pic.....
I would have a difficult time trying to pick out ONE that looked to be female.
Just sayin'.
ETA:
Including the coaches.edit on b000000282014-02-12T13:12:58-06:0001America/ChicagoWed, 12 Feb 2014 13:12:58 -0600100000014 by butcherguy because: (no reason given)
Gender change operations are legal in Iran according to a fatwa - or religious ruling - pronounced by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The law contrasts with the strict rules governing sexual morality under the country's Sharia legal code, which forbids homosexuality and pre-marital sex.
TheToastmanCometh
Gender change operations are legal in Iran according to a fatwa - or religious ruling - pronounced by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The law contrasts with the strict rules governing sexual morality under the country's Sharia legal code, which forbids homosexuality and pre-marital sex.
Apparently the above is true.
Transsexuality in Iran
I just had to do a double check, because Sharia Islamic state and gender issues usually don't fit well together...
I wonder if it's easier to go through there than in America