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it's a joke. I saw it on twitter and thought it was funny.

If there's a bunch of "Actually Khomeini was great for trans rights!" info out there, I'd genuinely love to hear it. But I'm not holding my breath.

weirdly enough there is, read about Maryam Khatoon Molkara

Molkara started to write letters to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq, asking for religious advice about being assigned the wrong gender at birth. In one of these letters, she said that her gender had been clear since she was two years old, as she used to apply chalk to her face to imitate putting on makeup.[3] Khomeini had already written in 1963 that corrective surgeries for intersex people are not against Islamic law, and his answer was based on this existing idea rather than developing a new fatwa for transgender people. He suggested she live as a woman, which included dressing as one.[6]

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Molkara continued to campaign for her right to get gender-affirming surgery. In 1985, she confronted Khomeini in his home in North Tehran. She wore a man's suit, carried the Quran, and she tied shoes around her neck.[3][6] This was a reference to the Ashura festival, and also indicated that she was looking for refuge. Molkara was held back and beaten by security guards until Khomeini's brother, Hassan Pasandide, intervened.[3][6] He took Molkara into his house, where she pleaded her case, yelling "I'm a woman, I'm a woman!"[3] His security guards were suspicious about her chest, as they thought she could be carrying explosives. She revealed they were her breasts, as she developed them using hormone therapy.[3] Having heard her story, Ahmad Khomeini was touched and took Molkara to speak to his father, where he asked three of his doctors about the surgery in an attempt to make a well-informed decision.[3][6] Khomeini then decided that sex reassignment surgery was needed to allow her to carry out her religious duties.[8] This resulted in Khomeini issuing a fatwa, where he determined sex reassignment surgery to not be against Islamic law.[6] Molkara lobbied for the according medical knowledge and procedures to be implemented in Iran, and worked on helping other transgender people have access to surgeries. She completed her gender-affirming surgery in Thailand in 1997,[2] due to "unhappiness with procedures in her native country''.[3] The Iranian government paid for her surgery, and she was able to help establish government funding for many other transgender individual's surgeries.