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DrLove
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From Perez Hilton:
'Cross-dressing teens get own school bathroom
Thai officials launch 'transvestite toilet' in bid to cope with growing need
A secondary school in rural Thailand has designed a new bathroom that it calls a "transvestite toilet" for its growing community of cross-dressers.
The Kampang School in northeastern Thailand conducted a survey last term that showed more than 200 of the school's 2,600 students considered themselves transvestites, said school director Sitisak Sumontha.
So, when classes resumed in May, the school unveiled a unisex restroom designated by a human figure split into two, half man in blue, and half female in red. Below the figure, it says, "Transvestite Toilet."
Three transgender students praised the new restroom as they plucked their eyebrows and applied face powder in front of the mirror outside the stalls.
Tolerant
"I'm so happy about this," Vichai Sangsakul, a teenager with a pixie hairdo pulled back with a pink barrette, told Thailand's PBS new channel on Tuesday. "It looks bad going to female restrooms. What would other people think?"
Most rural Thais are conservative in many ways, but the trailblazing toilet initiative at the school in northeastern Sisaket province reflects another aspect of Thai society: its tolerance of the country's very visible transsexual and transvestite community.
"These students want to be able to go to the restroom in peace without fear of being watched, laughed at or groped," said school director Sitisak Sumontha. Using female restrooms made some of the other students uncomfortable and using the men's room often resulted in harassment, he said.
'Uneasy'
"They don't have problems with transvestites but going to the same private area, like a toilet, makes them uneasy," he said. "The transvestite kids may behave even more effeminately than the girls, do but their anatomy is still like that of a boy."
He said the concept reflected a growing need at Thai schools and universities.
Kampang is not Thailand's first educational institution to set up transvestite washrooms, though Sitisak said he believed it was a first for a secondary school. A 1,500-student technical college in the northern province of Chiang Mai set up a "Pink Lotus Bathroom" for its 15 transvestite students in 2003.
Deputy Education Minister Boonlue Prasertsopar recently said the ministry plans to count the number of transvestite university students.
He said he was not promoting trans-gender interests, "but if there are a lot of them in a university and it's a problem, we may have to consider building toilets and dormitories for them."
Transsexuals and transvestites are regularly seen on TV soap operas and throughout Bangkok, working at department store cosmetics counters, popular restaurants, in office jobs and in the capital's red-light districts. Thailand also has a trans-gender beauty pageants.'
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:06 am on June 18, 2008
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Minder
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Amazing Thailand...good on 'em...and all done without a mob of enraged "concerned" citizens appearing at the school's front gate waving placards and screaming hatred as would probably happen in the West.......
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 4:12 pm on June 18, 2008
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atl
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Minder,
I am of the same mindset, but know a few bro's here probably cringe reading that...
D. Love...you read Perez Hilton? out in LA he is an internet guru..certainly has done very well for himself just blogging....
atl
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:35 am on June 19, 2008
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DrLove
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Yeah, with people paying upto 75,000 dollars per day for an ad package.....
Regular stuff I read...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 7:01 am on June 19, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from atl on 9:01 pm on June 19, 2008
out in LA he is an internet guru.
I wouldn't quite go that far.
He is a lucky annoyance with a blog.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 9:41 am on June 19, 2008
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atl
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DD,
you would know being out in LA, I didnt say I like the guy..but he has made a name (and $) for himself just blogging....the guy worked at Starbucks when he started his blog and now is rich..
now back to the topic of equal rights for transvestites 
atl
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:54 am on June 19, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from quack quack on 11:06 am on June 20, 2008
Can any one please tell me the real reasons why people become transvestites or dress / act in a cross gender way?
Confusion.
I could go into an elaborate explanation, mainly revolving around imprinting and environmental conditioning, but that would go beyond the topic of the thread. No, in this case, 'bad parenting' is not the operative cause - but people are not being 'born that way' either.
PM me if you want to discuss.
Quote: from quack quack on 11:06 am on June 20, 2008
Surely it's more pleasant f***ing than getting f***ed.
Your opinion, your experiences, your program - others' mileage will vary (though I agree with you).
Good question.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:09 pm on June 19, 2008
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DrLove
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There are probably different reasons for that here in Thailand than in the West.
Here one important reason could be financial benefits....
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:13 pm on June 19, 2008
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atl
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quack wrote:
Can any one please tell me the real reasons why people become transvestites or dress / act in a cross gender way?
come on man......are you being serious???? like they choose and want to be ridiculed because the way they are....
I give props to those that say f*** it, this is who I am!
to each their own, and when you dont hurt me or my family....go for whatever makes you happy in this short life...
atl
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 9:22 pm on June 19, 2008
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LocalYokul
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I think it's about the financial benefits also
some have met Baht bus drivers in Pattaya that used to be LBs on Soi 6
they finally got tired of pretending to be a gender bender for the money
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:55 pm on June 19, 2008
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