The Kampang Secondary School in Thailand has made international news. It now has three types of toilets, one for girls, one for boys and one for transsexuals (signposted with a half-man, half-woman figure in blue and red).
Headteacher, Sitisak Sumontha, estimates that in any year between 10% and 20% of his boys consider themselves to be transgender - boys who would rather be girls.
Can you imagine what the papers would say if that happened here?
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Thailands society is just a bit different in its dealings with transgender. The fact that there is such a thing as transgender is rather accepted not only in childeren but also in adults. Though most of the adult "Ladyboys" earn their living as prostitutes - to save up for an operation to 'correct nature's error'. More often than not these 'operations' are not only very ill performed they are often lethal.
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