a car one day it s anything but certain that she ll be able to do so as a woman. fatuma makes the transformation every morning she hides her hair and quickly becomes a boy how long will she get away with this fatima wouldn t mind being a woman if she could have the life promised in the photos on her wall but that seems impossible. but how did it get yet i mean you know these women are free but they don t live in afghanistan unlike me i could never lead that sort of life here me to the more limited. the family will be able to pass off as a boy for a few more years but what then nobody will believe the pretense anymore in most cases once puberty starts freedom comes to an end her father wants to wait for
can wear boys kurtzman the reason we re going to outside she can t we must teach her to be a girl my age but i think that a little. fatima can at least go to school even though her old freedoms disappear under the he job almost all of her classmates knew her secret. mother. i m a girl now that was i have to behave like one. of them but i would much rather have stayed a boy. she. bought him us not happy her life is currently being turned upside down. at the moment there s either i m not a little boring are. in need of a honey i can forget about soccer or cycling now forever my competitor. she says it with a brave face as if it were nothing special. this
window took. at least busy i was relatively fortunate her tumor is gone and she s almost forgotten about the operation but she still faces a life in poverty she ll have to go back to work send her parents don t want to send her to school she s supposed to continue earning money. we re paying another visit to fatima the girl who posed as the boy most of the or more than a year has passed the pretense fell apart faster than expected fatima is on her way to adulthood.
to do justice laws so i m a girl and i live in afghanistan just leave. my parents let me crow up as a boy because otherwise they wouldn t have had anyone to send to the shops for example that so the soldiers. it s more complicated than that of course her parents wanted a son and fatima played one she liked it but now everyone gradually has to get used to the truth. she must get used to the situation i say she s my boy but how long can i say that sooner or later she ll be married off. here at home she can do what she likes. but the times of kabul when she gets married her in-laws will tell her what to do as much and that solitude soon afghanistan she ll
violence one in four casualties of the hostilities today as a child. and the child s gender also plays a role. via is out on his bike like so many other boys except most of ears actually a girl called fatima she pretends to be a boy for very practical reasons. not that it can make or imagine but i can go where ever i like it s quite simple that i just have to push on the pedals like them and off i go. but it s not that simple at all mousavi or the boy is allowed to cycle around outside on his own fatuma a girl would have to sit around at home and would definitely not be allowed to play soccer with friends. fatima is ten the only way she can join in the game is by