# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maryam-khatoon-molkara
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:24:20.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maryam-khatoon-molkara"
name: "Maryam Khatoon Molkara"
slug: "maryam-khatoon-molkara"
description: "Maryam Khatoonpour Molkara was an Iranian transgender rights activist, and she was widely recognized as a matriarch of the transgender community in Iran. Designated male at birth, she was later instrumental in obtaining a letter which acted as a fatwa enabling sex reassignment surgery to exist as part of a legal framework. Molkara became the first transgender person in Iran to legally undergo sex reassignment surgery with the permission of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini."
tagline: "Iranian Trans Rights Activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maryam_Molkara.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
birthDate: "1950"
deathDate: "2012-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.93
  momentum:             3.888067189545207
  historical:           13.41678133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump