Thai Ladyboys – Katoeys

There tends to be some confusion about what a Thai ladyboy is and what she isn’t and this post is meant to help clarify it for noobs and veterans alike… A ladyboy is a biological man that chooses to either cross dress as a woman, or get the operation to lop off the male parts [...]

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The humerus is the bone that goes from your elbow to your shoulder and there’s nothing funny about it as it relates to ladyboy identification. You might notice there’s something strange about a woman with a short humerus bone. Why is that? It’s because men have shorter bones than women. So, when woman has short [...]

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I’ve been mulling over one more way that you can tell a Thai ladyboy from a Thai girl more easily than sticking your hands down her pants. I think I’m going to guess that Thai ladyboys smoke more often than the Thai girls do. That’s something that’s easier to see in a place like Udonthani [...]

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In Samut Prakan they’ve made history by appointing the first ladyboy village chief ever. The newly appointed is now district chief of Tai Ban Mai village in Samut Prakan just about 30 km north of Bangkok, Thailand. He/she goes by the name “Sister KOB”. Is that name appropriate or what? Like corn on the cob [...]

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The school in Sisaket province is making real world-wide news with their recent decision to put a ladyboys toilet in at their secondary school. The Reuters video is apparently making the rounds. I learned about this from Gay Boy Thailand – he scooped me on it. Video of Thai Ladyboy Students at Sisaket School > [...]

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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 [...]

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A Thai magazine had an article that Stephen Cleary translated about Jim Sara – a former actor that completed a full sex change operation (transgender surgery) in 1976 becoming the first Thai to EVER do so. She claims to be Thailand’s 1st Real Ladyboy. How old do you think she is in this photo? Find [...]

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Here is a list of Thai ladyboy research & resources for treating transgendered people on campuses and in healthcare systems. These are PDF files (Adobe Acrobat .pdf) you can download to learn more about ladyboys, gay, bisexual, and lesbian issues in Thailand as well as around the world. In particular there are some great articles [...]

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