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Maryam Khatoon Molkara

Iranian Trans Rights Activist

1950 - 2012

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Their biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Maryam Khatoon Molkara is the 544th most popular social activist, the 419th most popular biography from Iran and the 9th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

Maryam Khatoon Molkara is most famous for her pioneering advocacy as an Iranian transgender activist, notably securing a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini to allow gender reassignment surgery. Surprisingly, she was originally assigned male at birth and worked as a nurse before dedicating her life to transgender rights within an Islamic framework. Her lasting legacy includes advancing transgender acceptance in Iran, where state-supported surgeries have become a model for rights in the region.

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Among Social Activists

Among social activists, Maryam Khatoon Molkara ranks 544 out of 840. Before them are Ted Grant, Ivan Betskoy, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Mykola Rudenko, Agnès Callamard, and Aminatou Haidar. After them are Dorothea Dix, Prudencia Ayala, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Lucy Parsons, Ekaterina Karavelova, and John Peters Humphrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Maryam Khatoon Molkara ranks 456. Before them are Loris Kessel, Antony Gormley, Yuji Hyakutake, Kirka, Ferenc Mészáros, and José Ángel Gurría. After them are Loles León, Lothar Kurbjuweit, Zvonimir Serdarušić, Ken Alibek, Sun Chunlan, and Marc Aaronson. Among people deceased in 2012, Maryam Khatoon Molkara ranks 339. Before them are Barry Commoner, Sergey Nikolsky, Sergio Livingstone, Gu Chaohao, Pierre Adam, and Chad Everett. After them are Břetislav Pojar, Nevin Çokay, Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Homai Vyarawalla, Franz West, and Adolfo Schwelm Cruz.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Maryam Khatoon Molkara ranks 419 out of NaN. Before them are Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Zia ol Din Tabatabaee (1888), Nasser Hejazi (1949), Viguen (1929), Abol-Fath Khan Zand (1755), and Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940). After them are Ali Abbasi (1981), Ali Shadmani (1962), Amir Hatami (null), Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani (1960), Ali Parvin (1946), and Ebrahim Yazdi (null).

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Among Social Activists In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Maryam Khatoon Molkara ranks 9. Before them are Musa al-Sadr (1928), Narges Mohammadi (1972), Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899), Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), and Massoud Rajavi (1948). After them are Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), Zahra Eshraghi (1964), Killing of Neda Agha-Soltan (null), and Parvin Ardalan (1967).

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