![]() Its usage dates back to a 19th-century interpretation of the Chbab Srey, a Cambodian text written around 1800. The term "kathoey" is used to refer to transgender women or the "third sex". He observed that there were many " catamites", or pubescent boys in pederast relationships, who tried to lure Chinese men with the promise of sumptuous gifts. This is mentioned in an account by a Chinese observer named Zhou Daguan who visited the Angkor Wat area of Cambodia in 1296–1297. ![]() History Īccording to historical accounts, the presence of young Khmer men dressed in women's clothing and seeking sexual exchanges dates back over 700 years. In the face of the many sociopolitical obstacles that kathoeys navigate in Thailand, kathoey activism has led to legal recognition as of January 2015. A significant number of Thai people perceive kathoey as belonging to a separate sex, including some transgender women themselves. Transgender women in Thailand mostly use terms other than kathoey when referring to themselves, such as phuying (Thai: ผู้หญิง, 'woman'). These people are not traditionally transgender, however are seen as a third sex, being one body containing two souls. Kathoey or katoey ( Khmer: ខ្ទើយ khtəəy, Lao: ກະເທີຍ ka thœ̄i, Thai: กะเทย RTGS: kathoei Thai pronunciation: ) is an identity used by some people in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, whose identities in English may be best described as transgender women in some cases, or effeminate gay men in other cases. Her favorite football team: “The Houston Texans. Just like my parents, I’m used to disappointment.Nong Tum is perhaps the most internationally recognised kathoey for her portrayal in the film Beautiful Boxer. So I owe him a thanks for that, but I still want a vagina at some point.” It’s not his fault that he’s attached to me, he’s done his best to give me functioning genitals up until this point. Why she still has a penis: “It’s just…a part of me. Everyone refers to me as she because that’s how I appear to them, it’s very easy.” At least with male and female pronouns, I can just call people by what I see, which I do out of habit anyway, that’s what everyone does. I mean, in theory I understand why they would want them to be used, and I don’t mind using them for those interactions, but I generally don’t want to be friends with those kinds of people, I dunno…it just seems like too much effort and more of an inconvenience and I’ll probably forget to use the neutral pronouns all of the time and offend them when I don’t mean to. Her stance on gender pronouns: “I realize that this next comment will probably get me some shit from the trans community, and I have the presence of mind to recognize my own shortcomings as things I can and should work on, but I don’t really get neutral pronouns. I don’t understand why it’s such a big deal now all of a sudden, and why people are focusing more on kids being touched in women’s bathrooms but not in the Catholic Church.” ![]() Her thoughts on the transgender bathroom debate: “Where do you think trans people have been taking a piss up until now? It’s not like we’d retreat to the sewers and pop a squat next to the mole people or something lmao, it’s not a huge deal…I go in and do my business, touch up my hair and face a bit and leave. If someone is going to come into a bathroom and touch people or take videos, no law is going to prevent them from doing that. No one treats me any differently at home, work or anywhere I might go.” What she wishes the general public knew about her: “I guess I’d want them to know that I’m a person just like any other…I spend my days dreading the commute to work, I go out to the bar with my friends, I sit at home and watch football on my Sundays off, I have hobbies and hopes and dreams…being trans is such a small part of what makes me ‘me.’ It’s just a part of my medical history at this point and isn’t relevant in my everyday life, for the most part. I wasn’t contemplating suicide or anything, just like ‘wow let’s get life over with, I wanna get to heaven!'” The moment she knew that her sex and gender didn’t match: “I remember being in 3rd grade in Catholic school and someone asked the teacher what people look like in heaven, and our teacher gave us the answer that was something along the lines of ‘you can look however you like in heaven, at any age’ (we were in 3rd grade, she was not going to make it complex for us hah), and innocently I got so excited to die because at 8-9 years old, that was the only way I knew it was possible for me to become a girl. The AMA wasn’t entirely serious, though-she also answered lighthearted questions about everything from her genitalia to what she does in her spare time.
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