For 40 years Iran has performed more gender transition surgeries than many other nations, largely a result of pressuring gay and gender-nonconforming citizens to undergo unwanted operations or risk the death penalty. Now, faced with an economy crippled by war and sanctions, the Islamic republic is promoting its expertise to a global audience, hoping to attract transgender foreigners with the promise of inexpensive surgeries packaged with luxury hotel stays and sightseeing tours. Desperate for foreign investment, Iran’s theocratic government has set a goal of generating more than $7 billion from medical tourism annually, according to Iranian state news media, about seven times as much as it earned last year. That objective has resulted in the proliferation of medical tourism companies, marketing not just nose jobs and hair transplants, but vaginoplasties, mastectomies and penis constructions through glossy English-language websites.
So in a country where gender affirming care is nigh-impossible, and repression of trans people is third-reich levels, an article goes out condemning Iran for allowing high-quality gender transition surgeries more than many other nations 
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The reporting
In Iran, gay men and lesbians can be punished by public flogging and the death penalty. As a result, the United Nations Human Rights Council found, many gay and lesbian Iranians who are not trans are “pressured into undergoing gender reassignment surgery without their free consent.”
The Committee is also concerned about reports of gay and lesbian Iranians being pressured into undergoing gender reassignment surgery without their free consent
There is no further inclusion of these reports (or I’m reading the UN document wrong). Please help me understand if this is bullshit or there’s some factuality behind this claim. This kind of reporting also does an amazing job at sparking strife between trans / gay and lesbian individuals I feel.
Where is it doing that?
It seems it´s only condemning them for forcing these on people (or putting them to death if they refuse)
If anything, the article seems to praise them for opening these up to foreigners
With no actual evidence that it’s happening.
Sure, but that’s not the point I was making. I simply chose to point out the OP’s most obvious lie.
With regard to the accusation of Iran forcing it on people, you’re both right that the article that the OP chose to comment on only refers to a short conclusionary UN report, which does not include references to its claims.
But it would probably have taken the OP less time to do their research into this and find some sources than it took them to make their post and put in some quotes and a funny picture. To then imply that it must be a lie because the information was not presented to them on a silver platter.
It really just takes 1-2 minutes to find articles on this like this one. I first read about this issue after Israel bombed the prison where Iran was keeping lgbtqai+ and trans prisoners.
Even if you don’t think it’s necessary to put in 2 minutes of research before posting stuff like this on the internet, I would advise everyone to be very careful to question the UN or (somewhat reputable) journalists regarding Iran doing some crazy shit
It’s public that Iranian law prescribes the death penalty for male-on-male sex. Or adultery or repeated sex outside marriage for that matter. If your government is going to kill you for loving the person you love, do you really think some of those people wouldn’t agree to gender surgery if that meant they’d stay alive?