Separate “Hoang Naam” (Restroom) for Thai Ladyboys in School

Transgender (Thai ladyboy) symbol.In Isaan there is a secondary school that created a ladyboy restroom for students after a survey of students found 200 ladyboys out of 2600 students! That’s almost 8% of the school’s population!  If we generalize that to the population of Thailand that would mean there are around 5 MILLION THAI LADYBOYS in Thailand. Is that possible? I think possible, yes. Likely - no. I think there must be a million though - a very sizeable amount!

The ladyboy toilet is marked by a sign on the door - half man in blue and half woman in red. Apparently nobody questions kids at the entrance to the facilities to ascertain if they’re man-woman-or ladyboy. Maybe they should.

I’m unclear by the article if “Kampang” is the name of the school or the city this school is in. Do they mean, Kamphaengphet, a city about 360 km east of Bangkok?

Apparently this is not the first instance of ladyboy designated restrooms… a tech school in Chiang Mai created a “Pink Lotus” restroom for fifteen of it’s ladyboy students five years prior to this.

Amazing Thailand…

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