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Aliquam sodales arsemper consectetur praesent vehicula...The majority of trans women in Iran do get the surgery done, either in Tehran or in Thailand.
—Laurence Rasti
Editors’ note: This project was singled out for distinction among the submissions to Magnum Photography Awards 2016 by juror Amy Pereira. It's not progressive. Right now, what's bubbling inside me is fear and worry for friends and family.
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Aliquam sodales arcu semper consectetur. It was a long-distance relationship, and I had to lie to my family to be able to kind of run away for a couple of nights and spend them with Kian. I feel there's always a kind of middle ground that people tend to lose.
It's very, very difficult to detach from reading the news that this street or that street was hit by a rocket, because my initial feeling is that these are places I’ve walked through many times, places I know like the back of my hand. Do you think war with Israel could finally lead to some kind of real change?
MP: There have certainly been lots and lots of protests.
It was more that, as a teenager, I just felt feminine rather than actually feeling trapped in the wrong body. Part of it was that I hadn't completely come to terms with my own sexuality and here was someone who was so confident and comfortable in himself.
In Denizli, a small town in Turkey, hundreds of Iranian gay refugees have put their lives on pause while waiting to join a host country where they can freely live their sexualities. Read More
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Aliquam sodales arsemper consectetur praesent vehicula... So the Ayatollah issued a fatwa and said, yes, you can transition and the government is happy to help you, but you cannot live as a trans woman with a male genitalia.I went on dates with guys who had their prayer mats in the corner of the room. I wrote a short, reflective piece on it just recently. It was also reminiscent of when I was a kid during the Iran-Iraq War. It’s hard to believe that this idea [of a war with Israel] we’d always heard about but said would never happen is actually happening.
JP: Switching gears slightly, do you think Islam can ever be reconciled with LGBT rights?
What would have to happen then?