Maryam Khatoon ,the first Transsexual who gets permission of Khomeini for sex change

As early as 1975, Molkara wrote letters to Ayatollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq, asking for religious advice about being assigned a wrong gender at birth and having to break out of it. In 1978, she traveled to Paris, where he was then based, to try to make him aware about transgender rights.