Iran’s women’s national football team have caused a bit of a stir after it was revealed that eight of them were men. 

Eight of Iran’s women’s national football team are apparently men. I guess it’s not only Aberkenfig U14 team that doesn’t shower after matches.

This hot piece of news is traveling around the globe in a jet plane after Mojtabi Sharifi, an official close to Iran’s national football team, broke the news to Iranian media. It’s believed all eight of them are waiting for their man’s bits to be turned into female bits. A set of surgical procedures that were deemed legal in 1979, when the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini changed religious law. He didn’t, however, change the laws that can result in execution if you are found to be homosexual.

It’s not the first time that Iran’s women’s national football side has fallen foul of this particular law. Last year, four players were found to be men, resulting in new laws on gender testing being introduced by the Iranian sports governing body.