NEWS FLASH

Obama’s Transgender Nanny Lives In Fear In Indonesia | The transgender woman who once served as President Obama’s nanny now hides her identity in lives in fear of persecution in Indonesia, the AP is reporting. Though Evie identifies as a woman, she presents herself as a man because she is afraid she’ll be murdered for being transgender like one of her friends was. Her father beat her for being a “sissy” as a child, she has spent time as a sex worker to make the money she needed to survive, and she still faces a constant threat of violence in a very transphobic country. Read the AP’s full profile of her tragic story.