Algerian transsexual's memoirs reveal life of discrimination
By Mark Tutton for CNN
July 9, 2010 8:28 a.m. EDT

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/09/randa.algeria.transsexual.lebanon/

London, England (CNN) -- An Algerian transsexual has published her memoirs, describing the discrimination she faced in her home country, which culminated in death threats that forced her to flee to Lebanon.

Randa, who says she's "around 30," now lives as a woman in Beirut, Lebanon, but was born a boy, called Fouad, in Algeria.

Even as a child she identified more with her three sisters than her brother, she says.

"When I was a child and I was at home with my sister I thought I was like her. It's only when I went out in the street that I realized what being a boy was and what being a girl was," she told CNN.

Had heard about this a few weeks ago, would love to read her memoirs.