Cenk Uygur
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Women's Soccer Team Questioned About Their Gender
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October 1, 2015
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6:48Now PlayingEight players from Iran's female soccer team are being questioned regarding their gender. There are accusations that eight of the so-called women are not actually women, they're men.
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Iran's national women's team has come under fire this week after it emerged that eight players of the group were not females, according to Al Arabiya News Channel’s Arabic language website.
“[Eight players] have been playing with Iran’s female team without completing sex change operations,” Mojtabi Sharifi, an official close to the Iranian league, said during an interview with the Iranian website Young Journalists Club. The proportion of players in the team who were born men was not known.
In 2014, it was reported by UK paper The Telegraph that four footballers from Iran’s national women's team were men.
Sharifi, who did not mention the name of the players, but said that some of them have played as men their entire career but only revealed their gender on the last day of their duty.
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