Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Miss Pink Competition 2006
© peripheries
In an article strangely entitled “Thailand's lady-boys are in a class of their own, at last”, The Independent reports on the Bangkok Suan Dusit University where young male transgenders are allowed to wear make up and female uniform. It is this “at last” that is rather ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Reurters Helen Long reports on the Thai school that has dedicated toilets for transgender students with a sign that's half male, half female.
The Kamphaeng School in Si Sa Ket, in northeastern Thailand opened separate toilet facilities to accommodate hundreds of transgender students who have always longed for their own restroom.
Having ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Hong Nam Katoye
(Toilets for Katoye
Matt, Bangkok Lost Boy and fellow blogger, posted on the recently introduced toilets for Katoye in Thailand. I specifically use the Thai word as there is no satisfactory translation in English or other western languages. Transvestite, transsexual, third sex can never encompass the real nature and ...
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