There are no official statistics about the number of transgender people currently living in Iran or how many Iranians have had gender reassignment surgery. However, the BBC has reported that there are more sex change operations taking place in Iran than in Thailand, which is known to be one of the countries that has made the largest strides towards integrating its transgender population (a third sex is recognised on official documents and 2% of the Thai population is transgender).In 2014, an Iranian surgeon said he had carried about more than 1,800 gender reassignment surgeries. Moreover, more and more artists are using their work to talk about the experience of being transgender, especially within the cinema industry. One recent example is the film “ An Iranian Woman ”, which came out in 2011.