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They're MUSLIMS. Practitioners of a religion that still kills people for being homosexuals, you fucking ignorant muppets. If you could stop fetishizing them for an hour or so as poor, oppressed victims of "muh Western hegemony/Jewish warcrimes" and actually pay attention to what they do and say, you'd figure out really quickly that there's a bunch of things that Islam doesn't mesh with. Like the perception of Iran as this beacon of trans enlightenment, and not understanding that these transitions are in lieu of death sentences for the crime of homosexuality.

So of course they're not going to attend events that celebrate homosexuality, or genderwoo bullshit in general, because it's something that is utterly against the tenets of their religion. And, unlike the Christians who've been mobbed into submission for the most part until only the actual "no fucks to give" types remain to express their disagreement, Muslims will not bend on this.