Ali has spent more than Dh150,000 on gender reassignment surgery in Florida and tens of thousands on legal fees. Ravindranath K / The National
Ali has spent more than Dh150,000 on gender reassignment surgery in Florida and tens of thousands on legal fees. Ravindranath K / The National
'The person in the mirror was not me': Emirati tells of gender struggle from childhood to adulthood
'I would chop off my hair to make a beard', says Ali, who is fighting for legal acknowledgment of his identity as a man
