Turdi holds a photo of himself as Evie with a friend in earlier days US President Barak Obama's childhood nanny, who was born male and dressed as a man by day but assumed her female persona by night, has reverted to being a full-time male and is living in fear in Indonesia. Turdi, who in the Indonesian style uses only one name, was employed by Obama's mother to cook and help care for her children. When the family left in the 1970s Turdi, who used the female name Evie, fell on hard times and supplemented her errratic income by prostitution. She was regularly physically abused and attacked by the staunchly Muslim soldiers of then-President Suharto's regime. The discovery of a transsexual friend's battered body several years ago led Trudi to suppress his female identity and he now ekes out a living doing laundry in a Jakarta slum.
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First published: Thursday, 8th March 2012 - 1:25pm