Transpeople (Khon kham-phet) in Thailand: Transprejudice, exclusion, and the presumption of mental illness

Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 251-267

  Winter, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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1. This chapter is based on a paper entitled "Transpeople in Thailand: Acceptance or oppression", presented at the Tenth International Conference of Thai Studies, "'Thai societies in a transnationalised world"', which was held at Thammasat University, Bangkok, in January 2008. In preparing this fuller version, I am grateful to Peter Jackson, Krissana Mamanee (Sana), Prempreeda Pramoj Na Ayutthaya (Bon), and Kosum Omphornuwat (Jigsaw) for their observations and patience in answering my questions.
2. http://www.globalgayz.com/g-thailand07-l.html (accessed 15 September 2008).
3. This expression is used, for example, on the "Transgender Women of Thailand" web site at http://www.thailadyboyz.net (accessed 15 September 2008).
4. Nada Chaiyajit of the ThaiLadyboyz group in e-mail communication with the author, 16 May 2008.
5. Jackson, e-mail to the author, 29 October 2008.
6. From a presentation by F. Van Griensven, "Epidemiology of HIV and STI in MSM in the greater Mekong region: what do we know?" (PowerPoint presentation at the Regional Consultative Forum in Bangkok, 15-16 August 2005). Cited in Jenkins et al. (2005, 5).