Chula reviews student’s right to wear female clothes

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Chula reviews student’s right to wear female clothes

By KORNRAWEE PANYASUPPAKUN 
THE NATION

 

 

THAILAND’S highest-ranked university on Wednesday confirmed that its board of directors had given conditional approval for a transgender student to wear female uniform.

 

The board plans to summon officials from its Faculty of Education and the student to hear each side’s explanation and reasons so the case can be concluded within 30 days.

 

Chulalongkorn University’s vice president for student and alumni affairs, Assis’t Professor Chaiyaporn Puprasert, said the institution had in the past allowed students attending their graduation ceremony to wear clothes that suited their gender identity and many faculties already allowed students to wear uniforms according to their sexual orientation. 

 

“The Faculty of Education [having previously imposed a ban] might in future think of the faculty graduates’ role as teachers who are role models for other youths,” he added.

 

A day earlier, political and rights activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, who also studies at the university, had posted on his Facebook page that he was celebrating a “small victory” regarding a university order that conditionally allowed a transgender student in the Faculty of Education to wear a female uniform. The board, which has yet to make a final ruling, is also reported to have taken into account the previous ban imposed by the same faculty. 

 

“Under the jurisdiction of the dean of Chulalongkorn University, [the school] has temporarily withheld the order made by the executive committee of the Faculty of Education. The student, therefore, can dress according to her [gender identity] until the committee gives a different order,” the order read.

 

Netiwit praised the student who fought the faculty order for having the courage to file the complaint, as well as the “many Chula students” who “shared” her plight on social media. 

 

He also thanked rights activists and others who signed the Change.org petition demanding that the faculty’s order be reversed. It was both the courage of the student and the public outcry over the decision that had resulted in the board’s reconsideration of the issue, he suggested.

 

As of Wednesday, about 100 supporters had signed the petition calling for Chulalongkorn university’s Faculty of Education to allow students to dress according to their identity. 

 

Netiwit also called on the Faculty to explain a “discriminatory” comment made by a faculty lecturer.

 

Gender activist Nada Chaiyajit, speaking on behalf of the student in question, said in a Facebook post that a lecturer had told the student: “You should be grateful that you are not sent to hospital to be cured or to be electrocuted like in the past. You should be grateful that the Faculty of Education allowed you to study here instead of sending you to an asylum.”

 

The activist quoted the student as claiming that her teacher would not allow her to attend class dressed in a female uniform and if she insisted on doing so, the teacher would dismiss the class.

 

Chulalongkorn University, along with Chiang Mai University, were last year praised by netizens for allowing students to dress for their graduation ceremonies according to their gender identities. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30362473

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-01-18

[mok199]

WOW that's something , but don't ask any students to know more than 500 words in English .........

[Inepto Cracy]

1 small step forward and 273 steps backwards. That is  progress for you dim wits.

Ouch my eyes must be smog filled.

[atyclb]

the least of their problems in education.

 

asylum or hospital huh, maybe they will send me there to cure delusion thinking i am so hansum

[monkeycu]

So a kid can go in drag but another kid had her hair cut for being too long

Makes you wonder what is being taught in school  

[Burma Bill]

Oh what a drag!

[NeoDinosaw]

"THAILAND’S highest-ranked university on Wednesday confirmed that its board of directors had given conditional approval for a transgender student to wear female uniform."

Please note that Chula is no longer the highest-ranked university in Thailand !

[brain150]

Gender insanity like everywhere else.

It's an UN agenda so it will come also to Thailand.

 

Satanic cult and the worship of the Baphomet - just look at the [so called] Prime Ministers hand signs.

It's pretty obvious. You can also look at pretty much any high politician or celebrity in the world.

They are all part of the same religion. 

[TEFLKrabi]

8 hours ago, mok199 said:

WOW that's something , but don't ask any students to know more than 500 words in English .........

Think you’ll find most Chula students have a very good level of English. 

[Eligius]

57 minutes ago, brain150 said:

Gender insanity like everywhere else.

It's an UN agenda so it will come also to Thailand.

 

Satanic cult and the worship of the Baphomet - just look at the [so called] Prime Ministers hand signs.

It's pretty obvious. You can also look at pretty much any high politician or celebrity in the world.

They are all part of the same religion. 

Yes, there are those with a diabolical, transhumanist agenda and possessed of satanic proclivities (of course I don't mean the beloved leaders of our nation - ahem!) - but the fact is that Thailand has for decades and decades (maybe centuries) had many persons (yes - persons, human beings) who felt they were inwardly different in gender from what their biological 'tackle' proclaimed.

 

I personally support such people in their struggle for their rights. I can't see how transsexual people are harming others. I often get served in shops by transgender staff, and their service is every bit as good as that of heterosexual workers, etc.  Many students whom I encounter are transsexual. Transsexualism is not a 'disease' that can be caught by contact: if it were, then most Thais would be transgender (which they are NOT), as there have long been numerous transgender people visibly present in this society.

 

The long and the short of it is: people are different - and I believe in respecting others' differences (as long as they are not hurting or harming other folk - or forcing others against their will to do as they themselves wish to do - and I've never met a transgender person yet who has tried to force me to follow suit!). 

[DrTuner]

Note to school girl uniform aficionados: In the future, check what's under the hood before proceeding.

[dpspike]

The university administrators must be the only people in Thailand who give a <deleted> about this. Could they not already notice there is like a million ladyboys in Thailand.

[Jingthing]

It's a big step for a transgender girl student to present in the gender costume that matches her inner identity. It's hard enough making that decision to face her peers that way and of course not all will wish to do that. It's harder still if the need to do that is there and the school forbids it. So good progress for any schools that do allow it. 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

Note to school girl uniform aficionados: In the future, check what's under the hood before proceeding.

Never miss a chance to turn a serious civil rights issue into a pervy one. 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, dpspike said:

The university administrators must be the only people in Thailand who give a <deleted> about this. Could they not already notice there is like a million ladyboys in Thailand.

That is a very naïve comment about the true situation for LGBTQ Thais in Thailand. It has a reputation as some kind of "paradise" for them that doesn't match the reality. Being better than Iran doesn't make it a paradise. 

[Krataiboy]

8 hours ago, monkeycu said:

So a kid can go in drag but another kid had her hair cut for being too long

Makes you wonder what is being taught in school  

In this case, the value of tolerance.

[Orton Rd]

Boy in a dress will always be just that, DNA cannot be changed no matter how much you want to 'identify' as another sex. Transgender madness has arrived here as well.

[kannot]

9 hours ago, monkeycu said:

So a kid can go in drag but another kid had her hair cut for being too long

Makes you wonder what is being taught in school  

stupidity?

[marcusarelus]

9 hours ago, monkeycu said:

So a kid can go in drag but another kid had her hair cut for being too long

Makes you wonder what is being taught in school  

You do know there is a difference between university and grade school.  Just checking.  Rules are not the same nor should they be. 

[marcusarelus]

2 minutes ago, kannot said:

stupidity?

I told him.  You could have been nicer and just mentioned the girl was in the lower grades and Chula is one of the best Universities in Asia.  No reason to call him stupid. 

[monkeycu]

Just now, marcusarelus said:

You do know there is a difference between university and grade school.  Just checking.  Rules are not the same nor should they be. 

So a cock in a frock is ok with you

[marcusarelus]

8 minutes ago, monkeycu said:

So a cock in a frock is ok with you

There are lady boys dressed as girls in Thai 1st grade.  Why not college? 

[monkeycu]

14 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

There are lady boys dressed as girls in Thai 1st grade.  Why not college? 

Sick and twisted comes to mind, but if you like it up to you

[overherebc]

Methinks some posters doth protest too much.

 

[newatthis]

14 hours ago, monkeycu said:

So a cock in a frock is ok with you

This is the 21st century, you know. We even have pussies in slacks now.

[cornishcarlos]

[marcusarelus]

1 hour ago, monkeycu said:

Sick and twisted comes to mind, but if you like it up to you

I said it was OK as boys determine what they wear in 1st grade in Thailand according to my experience.  I said nothing about like.  You said like.  I imagine it was a subliminal reference.  It's OK though.  You can like anything you want.  Up to you.  But remember, all I said was that it was OK in the higher grades as it was already done in the lower grades.  You added the like not I.  ????  Kilts or skirts all the same to me.  What should go on in school is learning and that is the important part. 

[atyclb]

On 1/18/2019 at 1:10 PM, brain150 said:

Gender insanity like everywhere else.

It's an UN agenda so it will come also to Thailand.

 

Satanic cult and the worship of the Baphomet - just look at the [so called] Prime Ministers hand signs.

It's pretty obvious. You can also look at pretty much any high politician or celebrity in the world.

They are all part of the same religion. 

 

 

you are just unhappy cause the ladyboys have longer ones than you

 

stop bitching

[bangrak]

IMO, this a horribly sexist decision, while 'tomboys' will be allowed to dress up as male students, is it? LOL!

Oh, Thailand, it took you so long to emerge, a tiny little bit, out of the dark middleages imposed(!) on you, and look, just a few years of (renewed) dictatorship by dinosaur-generals are enough to even 'bomb' the Thai monument of education Chula is (...considered locally!), straight back into the dark ages! 

[Jingthing]

3 hours ago, bangrak said:

IMO, this a horribly sexist decision, while 'tomboys' will be allowed to dress up as male students, is it? LOL!

...

I think maybe you're a bit confused. Tomboys are generally butch lesbian women that identify their gender as women. Butch women but still women. That's not the same thing as a transgender man that identifies his gender as a man. 

Similar to the segment of gay men that are effeminate but identify their gender as male, not female. 

Why wouldn't transgender men be allowed to attend school in male uniforms?