Shaya Goldoust (; born 1 April 1986) is an Iranian-born Canadian journalist, human rights activist, radio host, and radio producer. She is one of the presenters of
Iran Wire, and
Radio Ranginkaman.
She lives in
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...
in British Columbia, Canada.
Biography
Shaya Goldoust was born on 1 April 1986, in
Rasht
Rasht (; ) is a city in the Central District (Rasht County), Central District of Rasht County, Gilan province, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is also known as the "City of ...
, in the Gilan province, Iran. She is
transgender
A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth.
The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
.
At the age of 18, she emigrated from Iran to Turkey, and then to Canada.
Goldoust openly speaks on women's rights, and LGBTQ issues in Iran. She has served as a speaker for the LGBTQIA in Iran (which are often refer to as the 'rainbow community') an Islamic state, which has included a collective letter sent to teachers in 2022. Goldoust attended the
Vancouver Pride Parade
The Vancouver Pride Parade and Festival is an annual LGBT Pride event, held each year in Vancouver, British Columbia, to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their allies. It is run by the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS), a ...
and
Pride Toronto
Pride Toronto is an annual event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June each year to celebrate the LGBTQ community in the Greater Toronto Area. The centre of the festival is the city's Church and Wellesley village, while the parade and m ...
in 2023 during the
Woman, Life, Freedom movement
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is a protest movement launched in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. The movement d ...
, wearing a rainbow colored gown and carrying a sign of solidarity with oppressed minorities in Iran.
She was part of the radio documentary series, "My Censored Life", which described her personal experiences growing up in Iran.
See also
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Homosexuality and Islam
Within the Muslim world, sentiment towards LGBTQ people varies and has varied between societies and individual Muslims. While colloquial and in many cases '' de facto'' official acceptance of at least some homosexual behavior was commonplace ...
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LGBT history in Iran
The history of LGBT people in Iran spans thousands of years. Homosexuality has been viewed as a sin in Islam, and is outlawed in almost all Muslim-majority countries, including Iran. In pre-Islamic Iran, a tradition of homosexuality existed, h ...
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Transgender rights in Iran
Transgender rights in Iran are limited, with a narrow degree of official recognition of transgender identities by the government, but with trans individuals facing very high levels of discrimination, from the law, the state, and from wider soc ...
References
External links
"I am a trans person"from Radio Ranginkaman
"Under the sky"podcast from IranWire
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Living people
1986 births
Canadian transgender women
Iranian activists
Iranian emigrants to Canada
Iranian journalists
Iranian transgender women
People from Rasht
Journalists from Vancouver
Canadian podcasters
21st-century Iranian LGBTQ people
Iranian LGBTQ rights activists
Canadian radio hosts
Canadian women radio hosts
21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
Canadian women podcasters