Transsexual Triumphs Over Gender Adversity
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/09/transsexual-triumphs-over-gender.html9/25/2008
BASED on the prediction of the midwife, Leang Sothea's mother's was
certain the child would be a girl. Before she gave birth, she even
started sewing girl's clothing for her new baby.
Leang Sothea was not born a girl, but the midwife wasn't exactly wrong either.
Feeling like a woman combined with the heartbreak of unrequited love prompted 26-year-old Leang Sothea, professionally known as "Popi", to undergo a sex-change operation in 2006, becoming one of the few transsexuals in Cambodia.
