Things are cheap in Indonesia (stopped thru once) The women work in the Middle East for $100/300 per month. They send most of that back home.
Barack’s mother was married to an oil executive, they lived in the most exclusive suburb of Jakarta.
Maids are plentiful in Indonesia, most homes have one, usually a village girl with little or no education. You hire them through agencies or from word of mouth. I’ve lived in Jakarta for years and had many maids work in my house.
Never, ever, not once has anyone suggested hiring a transsexual for a domestic servant. The idea of it would be absolutely absurd, even in a liberal westernised home like ours in the twenty-first century we’d never consider hiring a transsexual (and there’s no shortage of them in Jakarta), and I certainly wouldn’t have one looking after my young son.
That his mother, in a mainly muslim country in the nineteen sixties would hire a transsexual for a nanny for her son tells us volumes about what sort of home Barack Obama grew up in.