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Thailand: The Paradise for Trans* People?
Rena JanamnuaysookThai Transgender Alliance (TGA)
The 5th TGEU Council Budapest, Hungary
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Thai Trans* Terms•Kathoey or Kathoei•Sao Praphet Song (a second kind of woman)•Phet Thi Sam (third gender)
TGA promotes the original use of “Kathoey"
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Thai Trans* Situations
• The gay- and trans*-friendly country• The world hub for medical transition procedures• Promotion of “ladyboys” “shemales” for sex
tourism• The most beautiful and famous trans*
celebrities in Asia• Emerging of trans* man communities
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Thai Trans* Situations(cont.)
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
“I don’t equate femininity with weakness”
Source:http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/aug/19/2
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
No Legal Gender Recognition
•First intersex person can change gender in 2007
•SRS not the tool to recognise gender
Photo source: http://www.l3nr.org/posts/535784
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
•Anti-discrimination laws not addressing SOGIE•No state welfares and private insurances covering medical transition procedures- Trans*women rejected to life insurances- Trans* women denied to donate blood at Thai Red Cross
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
Stigma and Discrimination in EducationCaptions on a grade 7 health education textbook: “sexual deviation, people who don’t act according to their sexual orientation”.Flip to another page, you find a statement saying “homosexual relationships often don’t last very long and normally end up with jealousy and violence”
Source: www.change.org
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
Rights to Health• Stigma and prejudice in healthcare settings• Trans* women in male hospital wards• Lack of trans*-specific state-run health services• Availability of hormone and injecting substances
on street pharmacies and black markets• Lack of gender sensitivity: public exposure of
male title of trans* woman patients• Increase of morbidity and mortality rate among
trans*people
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
Rights to Employment and Workplace
• Denial of employment due to trans* identity• No trans*-friendly policy: medical leave for SRS• Discrimination in job promotion and pay rise• Forced HIV testing in many public, private
companies and service work industries• Criminalised sex work: violence from police, no
social welfares, vulnerable to health risks
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Thai Trans* Situations (cont.)
• Prejudices in religion: trans*women prohibited in Buddhist ordain
• Bullying in school• Misunderstanding and misrepresentation by
media and public journalism• Consumerism: trans* identity commodified,
commercialised and reduced to a mere freak of nature
• The catchphrase “We can make men beautiful!”
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Thai Trans* Highlight
• Thai trans* women classified as “a permanent mental insanity” by the Thai army conscript
• In 2011, a court ruled that it was incorrect and unlawful
• In 2013, the new term “gender is incompatible with sex at birth” was introduced.
Photo source: www.bangkokpost.com
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Thai Transgender Alliance (TGA)
A trans*-led organization working to advance human rights of trans* people in
Thailand through policy and advocacy strategies
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TGA Policy & Advocacy Activities
• Advocating for the withdrawal of “mental insanity” from the army conscript
• Developing a national guideline for trans*women in national army recruitment
• Developing a guideline for parents and family members of trans* children
• Developing a survival guide for trans*women in disaster situations
• Advocating SOGIE in Sexual Reproductive Health Act• Research to Advocacy on Legal Gender Recognition
in Thailand• Implementing Transrespect VS Transphobia Project
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The National Human Rights Workshop for Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2014 Contestants
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BANGKOK IDAHOT 2014
Thai Transgender Allianceand Bangkok Metropolitan Administration