Iran also forces gay men to transition under threat of death, and once they’ve transitioned they’re now second class citizens because that’s how women are treated in Iran. Oh, and the regime massacres the people who protest this (and the dictatorship in general) in the streets by the tens of thousands.

Yeah, America is all kinds of fucked and the war is completely illegal and unjustifiable, but that doesn’t change the fact that Iran is a brutal theocratic dictatorship. And very, very far from queer-friendly.