In Uzbekistan, transgender man breaks barriers with transparent transition
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-uzbekistan-transgender-20160317-story.html
LA Times/By Mansur Mirovalev March 17, 2016, 3:00 AM |Reporting from TASHKENT, Uzbekistan
"Yan has a harrowing reminder of how haters in Uzbekistan treat transgender people.
"There's a scar left by a screwdriver next to my liver," the craggy-bearded and long-haired transgender man says, describing how his college classmates attacked him in 1997 in Tashkent, the capital of this former Soviet republic, a mostly Muslim nation of 31 million."