Iran's football association accused of being 'unethical' after it is claimed eight players in women's national team are men awaiting sex change operations
Eight of Iran's women's football team are actually men awaiting sex change operations, it has been claimed.
The country's football association was accused of being "unethical" for knowingly fielding eight men in its women's team.
Mojtabi Sharifi, an official close to the Iranian league, told an Iranian news website: “[Eight players] have been playing with Iran’s female team without completing sex change operations.”
On Wednesday, authorities reportedly ordered gender testing of the entire national squad and leading league players. The names of the players thought to be male were not revealed.
The Iranian women's team play in hijab headscarfs, long-sleeved tops and tracksuit bottoms.
In 2014, the country's football governing body introduced random checks after it was revealed that four national team players were either men who had not completed sex change operations, or were suffering from sexual development disorders.
In 2010, doubts were raised about the gender of the team's goalkeeper.
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.
Can you read? You are not a woman as long as your sex doesn't match your gender.
Care to explain how is that an ignorance?
You're dismissing the whole point of gender IDENTITY
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A trans woman (sometimes trans-woman or transwoman) is a transgender person who was assigned male at birth but whose gender identity is that of a woman
You're dismissing the whole point of gender IDENTITY
And you're dismissing the point of the term woman. Yes, woman can sometimes refer to a person's gender identity but in fact, woman is someone whose gender and sex are female. These people still have male genitalia and are technically not women.
And you're dismissing the point of the term woman. Yes, woman can sometimes refer to a person's gender identity but in fact, woman is someone whose gender and sex are female. These people still have male genitalia and are technically not women.
not you talking about technical women with that haggard john cena-shaped chunk of plastic in your avi.
I know britney fans are stuck in the past but 1857 is a bit much.
