Albanian Women Defy Traditional Gender Roles
Filed by: Serena Freewomyn
June 27, 2008 4:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/06/albanian_women_defy_traditional_gender_r.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/06/albanian_women_defy_traditional_gender_r.php)
A recent story in the New York Times reveals that what we currently define as transgender identity has existed in different cultures around the globe for centuries.
Pashe Keqi recalled the day nearly 60 years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father's baggy trousers, armed herself with a hunting rifle and vowed to forsake marriage, children and sex.