Some Afghan girls are forced to live as boys to avoid family shame in the community

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3/27/12, "The Afghan girls who live as boys," BBC, by Tahir Qadiry


"This child has been temporarily transformed from Mehrnoush the girl to Mehran the boy" BBC

"For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.

When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her daughters ready for school, she dresses one of the girls differently."...

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Ed. note: There is of course no chance anyone could "help" this ridiculous country. The US political class, including the Bush and Obama crowd and all their relatives, is either mentally ill and/or greedier than the mafia ever dreamed of. Killing and maiming American soldiers, destroying the US economy, stealing a trillion dollars of US taxpayer money continues. USA, USA!

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