"I have dressed this way for forty years, since I decided to be a bacha posh, woman dressed as a man."(2) I cannot imagine being forced to dress like a boy as a child for safety reasons. This is a sad reality that many young girls had to go through during their childhood in Afghanistan. If a family did not have a young boy in it, they would pick one of their daughters to dress as one in order to do the things that a son would do if they had one. At a certain age, the girls would be allowed to start dressing as a girl and start living their life publicly as a young woman. However, what happens to the young girls "Was it this outfit that had led me there, to the US Department of State?"(2) Although being different might not be encouraged in your family or your culture, somewhere around the world some one is looking at you in amazement. "Among Women from all over the world chosen to receive the award for Most Courageous Women of the World?"(2) Sometimes wh...