Cross about cross-dressing

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Cross about cross-dressing
Indian Express
Feb 04, 2010 at 0107 hrs


http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Cross-about-cross-dressing/575229


CROSS-DRESSING is on the rise among young Qataris. The local press says that more tradition-minded locals are upset by the growing number of young women affecting a masculine style of dress, baggy trousers, short hair and deep voices. These women, who call themselves boyat, which translates as both tomboy and transsexual (and is derived from the English word boy), are being seen in schools and on university campuses where some are said to harass their straiter-laced sisters.