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Ladyboys in Cosemetic Shops

dorkmai — 2008-05-25T06:18:00Z

Today I walked in to a Watson Shop in a mall and immediately recognized that two ladyboys working there. Nothing special. But it remineded me that some days ago I surfed the internet and found a website where a western man or woman was writing about, where to find ladyboys in Thailand. It made me smile, because it is the same as the question "where will you find men or women in Thailand?".
The quthor of that article wrote, that you will find always ladyboys in cosemtic shops in the shopping malls, as ladyboys spent their whole life with cosmetics and beaty stuff and that would be the reason hy they are employed there.
I found that a little to much cliché. Of course we are spending some time with make up and beauty products as natural beauty is not always given to every katoey. But I know a lot of ladyboy people who are doing something else than working in the beauty industry. Like the Ladyboy that lifed in the room next door, when I lived at Victory Monument. She was doing a vocational training as electrician - there is not too much lipstick in that business.

But, of course Ladyboys will know about beauty a lot better than anybody else. Most of us have an affinity for make up and beauty since early childhood. Actually, that is when the people arround us will be aware the first time, that we are katoey.

I have been working since the age of 15 in beauty shops in the northeast and in Bangkok. Many women came to get there make up by a katoey before they went to important events where they have to be beautiful.
In rural areas many beauty shops are run by katoey and many of them will employ and give vocational training to younger ladyboys. That way we support each other, which I consider very important, especially if you are special.

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Ladyboys allowed to live at the Girl's Dorm

dorkmai — 2008-05-25T06:12:00Z

Due to the new constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand, Katoey will now be allowed to have there rooms at the girl's dormitory in Bangkok's Srinakharinwirot University. The Principal of Srinakharinwirot, Khun Wiroon Tangcharoen, had been also a member of the Assembly that drafted the new constitution.
This is happy news to us, as you can imagine how everybody felt to life among boys when ineself is not.I hope this new rule at Srinakharinwirot University will be a example for other universities. We will keep you informed about the changes and how everything works out.Of course we are very thankful to Khun Wiroon Tangcharoen for having such modern and tolerant attitude.

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Katoey Pride You`re beautiful

dorkmai — 2008-05-23T22:30:00Z

You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring you down
You are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring you down
Don't you bring me down today...

That`s a short, but the most essential part of Christina Aguilera´s song Beautiful.
A couple of months ago I read in another blog that the author called for Ugly Ladyboys to stay at home and not show in public. That is a pretty humiliating claim.
I have a lot of ladyboy friends who are not exactly beautiful but most of them are the most reliable, honest and true people that I ever met. They are beautiful much more then many of the ladyboy beauty queens their beauty is just on the inside.
It is already enough that these girls (yes, they are girls, too) are mocked in Thai language as Katoey Kwaai which means Buffalo Ladyboys.
Not everybody of us is gifted by nature but of course everybody tries very hard. Still, some unfortantely never fully succeed.
Then who ist he judge about what is beautiful and what not? Then, what are the criteria for beauty? Is it the size of the tits? The features of the face? The firmness of the ass? Or is it maybe also intellect and trueness?
I`d rather call a not so beautiful but smart and real katoey my friend than a beauty with half a dozen of make-up layers that is just as smart as a brick.
If you call for not-beautiful ladyboys to stay out of public, then what about the real girls? There are a lot of them that really hurt one`s eyes.
Last but not least: What about the fat, unshaven farang men, that take a shower at best every other day?
Just live and let live- that`s all I am asking for.

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Getting things straight about castration and sex change surgery for Ladyboys

dorkmai — 2008-04-09T09:11:00Z

After reading the reading one of the worst researched articles ever, I think I have to explain some things about the recent ban of cosmetic castration for Thai ladyboys.
The Thai Ministry of Health banned only the castration surgery not the sex reassignment surgery the so called sex change.
In fact the ministry aimed to ban the backroom surgery during which only the testes are removed. This has been because several doctors conducted that cut on under age ladyboys without their parents knowing.
So there is no direct defiance as that pretty bad article by Marianne Kearney says. Also wrong is the statement, that a sex change operation costs in Thailand only as little as 4,000 baht or £64.
This is the price for only the castration surgery. The discussion in the foreign media was again like always when it is related to ladyboys very confusing. Castration got mixed with the sex reassignment surgery, transvestites became transsexuals and the other way round.
With just a little more web research it is not difficult to write a nice article about the ban. A coverage that is more confusing than providing information and even wrong inb the facts helps nobody especially not the ladyboys and their doctors in Thailand.

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No more castrations for teenage ladyboys

dorkmai — 2008-04-03T05:40:00Z

It had become like some kind of a trend. Early castration when a ladyboy is still in her teens. Doing so, many ladyboys hope that it will keep their body from developing male features. This may be right, but there are a lot of side effects, that the doctors who conduct these rather small surgeries in their backroom for just 4000 Baht (=120 US$), never talk about. And the young ladyboys dont know anything about that, too. They just want to have it, because another ladyboy friend had it done and says it`s cool. It`s the kind of peer pressure that teenagers experience whatever gender they are. But when it comes to castration becoming a trend then it`s getting dangerous.
They will age faster than usual, growing taller, but with fragile bones, tend to listlessness and get easily fat. Also they will rather develop depressions.
Most often their parents don`t know, what their will-be-daughters are up to and when they open up after the surgery, the damage is done.
There is he demand fort he surgery and some money to be made. So there will always be an unethical doctor who will conduct the surgery without telling his young katoey patient about the dangers.
Now, the Health Ministry wrote to 16,000 hospitals throughout the country temporarily banning castrations for cosmetic purposes. According to a ministerial committee overseeing hospitals and clinics, boys below the age of 18 have been submitting to the surgery in the mistaken belief that it represents a cheap alternative to a full sex-change operation. The operation takes about 20 minutes and is easy to carry out in secret.
The Gay Political Group of Thailand has campaigned for greater regulation of the industry and an end to the castration of juveniles. It's a totally wrong perception that castration will make boys more feminine, its head, Natee Teerarojjanapongs, told the Bangkok Post. These youngsters should wait until they are mature enough to thoroughly consider the pros and cons of such an operation.

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Foreign Shemale whirls Bangkok Cabbies mind

dorkmai — 2008-03-25T08:28:00Z

Crazy thing happened to me yesterday. I have been visiting some good friends in Banglampoo, Bangkok. When it was time to go home we entered a taxi. My friends left the taxi as I just took them some meters down the road. After they had closed the door. The taxi driver asked me in Thai if I was a boy or a girl. I replied that I was a girl, but laughingly said, that I belonged to the third sex. He did not believe.
Most of the people I meet in Thailand will not know that I am a transsexual until I let them know. So did the taxi driver.
He was really funny a young good looking man from the Isaan region and we had a really good conversation in Thai on the long way home. We talked a lot and even sang songs together. He then asked me one more time if I was a boy or a girl and then I said like: My body is male but my heart female (roughly translated from Thai). He then got very excited a I got a lot of compliments from him he you could easily see, that he liked me very much. Then there was really some tension in the air like we were both young, good looking and liked each other. When we arrived at my home, it was of course strange to give him money. After I got out of the car, he did not drive away like every other taxi would have done. He stood there and looked after me. Then he drove several times around the yard looking for me to appear in one of the windows and asking him to come up to share some sexy minutes with me. But I did not. I try to be a good girl. At least on that day ;-)