She was born Mohamed Ramadan Ali and is one of the few transgender women in the conservative Muslim country able to confront what doctors diagnosed as gender dysphoria.

E didn't know what to think.

I always felt I was a girl, not a boy.

I felt I wasn't the six I waas, but I had no idea what to do about it or how to think about it.

I did not have the ability to think The first medical report I received said I had brain deficiencies.

It wasn't a matter of an extra sex organ.

It was a mental issue because gender is a mental issue and that is what the first report said.

It said.

I had an identity disorder.

Gender reassignment procedures are legal in Egypt, but it's often a long complicated on highly stigmatized process.

Discrimination against LGBT plus groups are also rife.

According to Human Rights Watch, gay and transgender people have reported instances of assault on torture.

The issue was brought to public attention earlier this year when a prominent Egyptian actor revealed on a TV talk show that his son was transgender on expressed support for him.

Ali, however, was abandoned by her family.

She was left jobless after extended medical leave and has had to move to a new town where only a handful of people know about her past a trans man or a woman who becomes a man.

Society can accept that without judgment.

Why?

I have no idea.

There's just a different rule.

But in my case that means I am on the wrong path or I am being falsely accused of being something I am not.

That's what most people think.

The former teacher now tutors Children in the neighborhood toe, earn a living.

Her dream is to one day, get married and have a child of her own.