The former nanny Obama and other shemale Jakarta
Evie – shemale from Jakarta, who once looked after the future President of the United States. The mother of Barack Obama, Ann took Evie to look after young Barry when they lived in Indonesia in the period from 1967-1971. Now, when a former pupil Evie holds the post of President of the United States, his nanny mired in poverty...
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1. This is Evie, aka Mr. Turdi, a former nanny of Barack Obama. Evie was born a man but considers himself a woman, which has repeatedly been subjected to harassment and beatings. No one knows how many transgender people living in Indonesia, a country with 240 million population. The fate of such people is difficult to describe – they are persecuted and forced to hide their identity. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
2. 66-year-old Turdi now lives in the slums of Jakarta, earning a living that washes the clothes of neighbors. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
"I just want to see little Barry (a nickname for Barack Obama), nothing more... of course He will not visit me in my rented room, and the trip to the U.S. I can only dream about. But if God wants, we'll meet again," he said Turdi-Evie.
3. On the photo: the Young (or young?) Turdi (left) in the female costume contest. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
4. Shemale calling themselves Adis, painted before the dance, which he makes a living in the slums of Jakarta. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
5. Turdi said he was proud of the fact that "an ordinary black boy from a modest family, became President of the United States." The white house has not commented on these statements by the Indonesian. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
6. Shemale defeated Molde in his room, while Adis painted before the dance. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
7. Shemale named Meylan with friends in Jakarta. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
66-year-old Evie, all his life considered himself to be a woman. His life has never been easy. Growing up, my father often beaten son, who, in his view, "behaved like a girl." The boy tried to adjust to the public view on how should look like a "real man", but soon realized that from himself he cannot escape. Leaving school after the third grade, Evie has graduated from courses for cooks.
8. Indonesian waving his money (about 20 cents) while the transsexual Anti entertains him at a roadside tray of food. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
Evie is so well mastered the art of cooking that impressed the Directors of several large restaurants. For several years he successfully worked as a chef in several establishments, while in 1969 not met at a party with Ann Dunham — mother of Barack Obama, who moved to Indonesia in 1967, she was married to resident of Jakarta, Lolo Soetoro. Write the American journalists, the woman "so impressed with the steak and fried rice, which was prepared by Evie, that she hired him as a home cook".
9. Meylan, Anti and Adis dancing at the roadside shop. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
Soon, in addition to cooking, transvestite he began to look for little Barry, who later was destined to become one of the most influential people in the world. Evie picked up the boy from school and helped him do homework. In the evenings, chef tutor regularly went on walks, dressing up in a dress. Indonesian says that he tried not to face Barry in that form, although he admits that the boy sometimes watched as his tutor used my mother's lipstick. However, according to Evie, Barry was too young to understand what was happening.
10. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
When the family of the future American President left Indonesia in the early 1970s, things Evie has sharply gone on recession. He wanted to get a maid, but nobody wanted to hire him. Then, to earn a living, the man who considered himself to be a woman, turned to prostitution. It lasted almost 15 years until in 1985 Evie and his friends-drag Queens are not attacked by the soldiers. They beat the Indonesian, shaved him bald, and began to extinguish him about the head butts. One of the friends Evie died. Since then the man decided to hide his true face.
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Did he get rid of all the items of women's wardrobe, stopped wearing makeup for many years and goes to a nondescript baggy clothes. Evie works as a laundress, and lives in constant fear: attitude to homosexual people in Indonesian society is still very severe. Now the man says that he has no future. He seeks solace in Islam, praying several times a day and, by his own admission, dreams of death.
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Once Evie saw in the newspaper a photograph of the family, which previously worked. The man couldn't believe his eyes: his former pupil has grown to become the leader of one of the world's leading powers. Many friends did not believe the Indonesian, however, former neighbors of the Obama family, who still live opposite the house once owned by the mother of the future President of the United States, say they remember Barry and his nanny.
13. The defeated Molde in the slums of Jakarta. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
According to them, no one ever came to Evie, no complaints. Now, when someone calls Indonesian the dregs of society or unflattering speaks about his sexual orientation, a resident of Jakarta, says proudly: "But I nurtured the future President of the United States."
14. Adis in the slums of Jakarta. (AP / Dita Alangkara)
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