christiefan915
Catalyst
Does anyone wonder why Obama is so sympathetic to transgender issues? Indonesia treats them like U.S. cons want to but can't.
"Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny is living in fear on Indonesia's streets.
Evie, who was born a man but believes she is really a woman, has endured a lifetime of taunts and beatings because of her identity. She describes how soldiers once shaved her long, black hair to the scalp and stubbed out cigarettes on her hands and arms.
The turning point came when she found a transgender friend's bloated body floating in a backed-up sewage canal two decades ago. She grabbed all of her feminine clothes and stuffed them into two big boxes. Half-used lipstick, powder, eye makeup – she gave them all away.
...They have taken a much lower profile in recent years, following a series of attacks by Muslim hardliners. The country's highest Islamic body has decreed that they are required to live as they were born because each gender has obligations to fulfil, such as reproduction.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/06/obama-former-nanny-transgender-trial-indonesia
"Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny is living in fear on Indonesia's streets.
Evie, who was born a man but believes she is really a woman, has endured a lifetime of taunts and beatings because of her identity. She describes how soldiers once shaved her long, black hair to the scalp and stubbed out cigarettes on her hands and arms.
The turning point came when she found a transgender friend's bloated body floating in a backed-up sewage canal two decades ago. She grabbed all of her feminine clothes and stuffed them into two big boxes. Half-used lipstick, powder, eye makeup – she gave them all away.
...They have taken a much lower profile in recent years, following a series of attacks by Muslim hardliners. The country's highest Islamic body has decreed that they are required to live as they were born because each gender has obligations to fulfil, such as reproduction.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/06/obama-former-nanny-transgender-trial-indonesia
