Thai School Gives Transvestites Own Restroom

[george]

Thai school gives transvestites restroom of their own

CHIANG MAI: -- Snubbed by both men and women, transvestite students at the Chiang Mai Technology School just wanted a restroom to call their own--and were granted their wish. Dubbed the Pink Lotus Bathroom, the facility is exclusively for the school's 15 transvestite students and features four stalls but no urinals. On the door hangs a sign with intertwined male and female symbols.

"They would come in the morning and use the women's bathrooms, but the women were annoyed, didn't like it, or played pranks on them," said Posaporn Promprakai, registrar of the school in Chiang Mai province, about 360 miles north of Bangkok.

The transvestites--who must wear male attire at school but are allowed to sport women's hairdos--switched to the men's bathrooms, only to run into more trouble. "The men teased them, chased them, and they came screaming and in tears again," Posaporn told the Associated Press.

So Posaporn designated a lavatory just for them, telling the vocational school's 1,500 students to just use their own restrooms. The transvestite bathroom opened last fall but this week attracted the notice of local media. Gays, cross-dressers, and transsexuals are generally accepted in easygoing Thai society.

"We don't support their decision to be transvestites. We are just trying to solve the problems of one group that is unhappy at school," said Posaporn. "They don't get teased in the bathroom anymore. They're much happier."

--Agencies 2004-06-19

[stumonster]

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=12043

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I always knew that there were three genders. MEN ... WOMEN ... and HAIRDRESSERS.

[PvtDick]

Where do the tomboys go to wee-wee?

[stumonster]

are the ones with a urine fetish allowed just to piss their pants?

[BronzeRider]

What is the source for this? I would like to reprint it, but I need a source.

Agencies? You mean Agents France Press or some other?

Thanks

BR

[350torana]

I always wondered why they are called 'restrooms' anyways .You don't go to the bog to rest, u go there to have a <deleted> or slash , or fix your make up if you are a girl .

[castelleone]

But it seems to me that even the Thai society is not all that tolerant after all...

[Clicker]

Good for them! Agreed Thai society is far from tolerant! Transgenderism is officially classed as a mental illness in our good old LOS!

Clicker

[john b good]

But it seems to me that even the Thai society is not all that tolerant after all...

Clicker quote.........

Good for them! Agreed Thai society is far from tolerant! Transgenderism is officially classed as a mental illness in our good old LOS!

Clicker

I would never have described Thai society as being "tolerant" other than that they claim to be so.

Be difficulty to find a country anywhere with more "hang-ups"

Just my view, therefore not "a fact"

[King Nick 4th]

I take it this new ben ghazi is situated between the mens and the ladies

Which makes it a betweeny for inbetweenys

[george]

I found this comment at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39120

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I thought urinals were for men!

In Thailand, one vocational school has solved the problem of insensitivity in bathroom segregation by adding a third bathroom to their campus for transvestites. After transvestite students were harassed by both men and women for entering bathrooms, the school added the "Pink Lotus" bathroom. The bathroom carries a sign showing male and female symbols intertwined. The college registrar explained: "We don't support their decision to be transvestites. We are just trying to solve the problems of one group that is unhappy at school."

Silly me. I thought that deciding which bathroom to use was a relatively simple operation: Check a few inches below your belly-button, and use the restroom that corresponds with your particular set of genitalia. That solution should cover 99.99 percent of human beings, no? If you are a guy but enjoy wearing women's clothing – well, don't be shocked when people make fun of you. That's life. If you're a girl and you want to use the urinal, don't be appalled when the men in the bathroom seem perturbed.

But my solution is passe these days. Men dressed as women, women dressed as men, people of either sex who would like to exchange genitalia – everyone must feel "comfortable." The goal of society is no longer preserving an amorphous social "good." It's making sure that no single person's feelings are injured, even if protecting the feelings of the individual take precedence over protecting the feelings of an enormous group.

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[Uli]

Isn't a sort of freedom? I guess, we all know that most Thai people do not like Gatoeys. However, they respect them since the individual may be a good person ('khon dee').

It's simply one of many elements that invites people to integrate into Thai society. Maybe, I worked in too many countries already where most of my every day problems simply resulted from the fact that I am a foreigner.

Personally, sometimes, I have my problems with gatoeys. Some people are good people, some are less so, but did we not all learn that in our countries of origin the hard way, too? However, that are my problems, and not necessarily the problems of a society.

Finally, let me ask: Why not?

Best regards,

Uli