Original title: "Aaïcha: het bizarre conflict van een als man geboren vrouw" (Aaïcha: the bizarre conflict of a woman born as a man) by Ab Pruis and Aaïcha Bergamin.I came across this book and its review through a fantastic website dedicated to the Dutch LGBT community."Aaïcha Bergamin was born Leonhard Bergamin in 1932. As a seventeen-year-old, she danced in Amsterdam in her sister's clothes. When her mother caught her with a Jamaican dancer at that time, she was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric institution in Heiloo. According to the doctors, she was a gay man with a trauma. "They just
