The High Price of Looking Like a Woman

[Natasha]

The High Price of Looking Like a Woman

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/nyregion/some-transgender-women-pay-a-high-price-to-look-more-feminine.html
8/19/11
By LAURA RENA MURRAY

ZAIRA QUISPE, 42, said she knew as a child that she was a girl, though she had been born male. She picked up a photo that she kept on the windowsill above her bed and held it out as proof. It's a picture of herself as a smiling baby, naked and with legs crossed, concealing genitals. "Look," she said, "even then I was trying to hide it."

[SandraJane]

Click on the link concerning the "study"in the article conducted by the NYC Health Dept. concerning Transgendered Women and HIV, or go to the Medical and Science News Board were an article and link to the actually report is posted.

Thank You Natasha for finding and posting this article!