TeacherJane

There are a number of lasers and techniques, not all equally subject to testing in peer review. So I would approach all of them with caution

Kathoey are not LGBTQ. The word glosses better as intersex, and that's how they are seen. You cant choose to become or come out as, a kathoei... Regarding them as transgender, or gay, is cultural appropriation. People who appropriate 'third sex' categories, for things like gender identities, ought to remember the historical use of a 'thrd sex' ie. a eunuch or neuter, physically ambiguous and defaulting to effeminacy. Kathoei are only aware of it in middle childhood, unlike current Western narratives that have 3 to 5 year olds profess a trans identity. Earlier in childhood, adults will be aware of kathoey tendencies in the male child: play behavior, and body language, and the like. Naturally self-awareness intensifies during puberty, although they dont develop macho frames or muscle mass. No one claims them, literally, to be natal women with penises. Just that they are biologically 'off' as men. This is the point of commonality with Western transsexuals, but only with the early onset subset.

Why be soft on them? ignore the ethics and they brought it on themselves. Consider the ethics, and the dilemmas are too serious, to be brushed aside with 'reproductive choice'

Consider thandonations are not only for patients, because laboratories use blood collection to secure biological materials.

Is it possible to be paid here, for donating blood or plasma?

Without political crap this is not hard to do. Simply because the traits in question, are physical and measurable by anthropometry. Any athlete can be matched with physically appropriate competitor's, no?

Bear in mind that Singapore is on the Lalay peninsula, which is historically Moslem... was it really an attitude imported by the Europeans?

Support for gay marriage is mostly a Western thing, if you look on the map. So the arguments in favor have a cultural basis, and do not apply strongly, to Thailand. Where marriage is seen as between a man and a woman, to produce children. In Western societies, social obligation on marriage is rownplayed, and even heterosexual marriage is a lifestyle choice.

Whatever the rights and wrongs, this is 21st century teenage stuff, to share DIY porn of themselves, and their friends, having sex. Assuming the 13 year old was of normal physical development, the P word is scarcely appropriate, if no more than 7 years was the age difference. Its all very irrelevant to the molestation of real children by actual grown ups, whatever is the rights and wrongs.

Fakes are indeed readily available. But who exactly checks them, and how rigorously?

Yes, teachers have a complex that they are undervalued. I could argue we are overvalued. It isn't a difficult job, how hard is it to edutain kindergarterners. Its a matter of the teacher as to their worth.

I was told that by law, TEFL certificates need to be accredited, so they can be checked. But do they ever check fake degrees? Because I doubt everyone with a fake bachelor's or TEFL has been deported. My intuition is nobody cares, and the papers are some formality

Obviously the are issues of personal space and consent, so intuitive respect wouldn't go amiss... but how can you legislate something such as this?

Its a statistical effect, surely?

Do you think no kathoey work in offices?