New Iranian Film Openly Discusses Transsexuality

“One of the many astonishing paradoxes about life in the Islamic republic is that transsexuality has been legal since a fatwa was issued in 1987 by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.” It’s still very much a taboo subject, though, which makes Facing Mirrors, about a young woman who wants to become a man, a daring project.