Twenty-year-old Lebanese transsexual and model, Sasha, poses during a photo shoot in an art studio in a popular neighbourhood of Beirut on January 16, 2016. Sasha lives at home under the protection of his mother and sister but his father and brother do not talk to him. His brother used to beat him every day because of his feminine attitude and at 16, Sasha ended up hospitalised due to severe injuries. He then took martial arts to learn how to defend himself. Transgender people are heavily stigmitized in Lebanon but on January 16, 2016, Lebanon's Court of Appeals granted a transgender man the right to change his sex in the civil registry on account of his own gender identification, marking a step toward granting transpeople legal recognition for their status. / AFP / Patrick BAZ