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Barack Obama had a transgendered nanny in Indonesia

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Image via Wikipedia AKARTA, INDONESIA, March 7, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – As a young child in Indonesia , Barack Obama ’s nanny was a transgender “woman” who walked around his home in female clothing and let the future president see him trying on lipstick.  In 1969, “Evie” – who was born a man with the name Turdi – worked as a cook when  he met Obama’s mother , Stanley Ann Dunham . (Turdi/Evie, like many Indonesians, goes only by one name.) Dunham had moved to the nation’s capital of Jakarta to live with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro . For two years, Turdi watched “Barry”, as Obama was called, and his younger half-sister,  Maya Soetoro , at their home in Jakarta’s Menteng neighborhood. Turdi was well-known in the area. The  New York Times   described  the nanny as “an openly gay man who, in keeping with Indonesia’s relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, carried on an affair with a local butcher.” Turdi later danced in the streets as part of a group of transvestites called the “