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Four players banned from Iranian womenrsquosnational team for failing gender tests

Players from the Iranian womens national team (aljazeeracom)

Women in Iran may not be allowed to attend matches between male sides for religious reasons but the

beautiful game is popular among the Islamic republics female population

Players in Irans burgeoning professional womens league will now be subjected to mandatory gender tests

after it has been revealed that four national team players were found guilty of not being women The Telegraph

reports

The countrys football governing body is bringing in the random checks after it was revealed that

several leading players - including four in the national womens team - were either men who had

not completed sex change operations or were suffering from sexual development disorders

Medical inspectors will now randomly attend professional womens games mdash and those in the indoor footsal

league mdash to carry out spot checks

Furthermore clubs will now be obliged to perform gender tests before signing new players to contracts Those

unable to prove they are female would be barred from taking part in the league until they underwent

medical treatment said Ahmad Hashemian the head of the Iranian football federations medical

committee

The Telegraph note that sex changes are often carried out in two-year phases in Iran but they represent a

legal grey area they are permitted under a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 but

contravene the sexual morality code of Sharia Law

So far a total of seven players have been barred from the league after failing gender tests

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