Comments by "exnihilo415" (@exnihilo415) on "Asian Boss"
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@rainxcviii1612 Your question is a good one and not easy to answer. My wife is a Thai trans woman. We live in California. She changed her legal gender and we're legally married in the US. Both of those things are not legally possible for her to do in Thailand. Everyone has the right to identify as the gender that they want. If Sauce wants to be considered "not a woman" that's great and perfectly her right. Gender non-binary people exist and that's great too. In the video, if you know the slightest amount of Thai you'll notice that Sauce uses the female ending particle "Ka", which is essentially self declaring her gender as female in the language. It's key to understand here that in South Asia and SE Asia there has been a 3rd gender social role for effeminate men / trans women for centuries that's part of the cultural landscape in a way that Europe and it's colonies never had. Hijra in India, Hhwaja sira in Pakistan, Waria in Indonesia. So too in Thailand. I don't know if Sauce actually sees herself as "not a woman", as a member of this 3rd gender class, or that's just the way she's been taught to respond to a question about her not being a cisgender female. There is a lot of nuance to language here. It surely doesn't help matters that Thai trans women can't legally be female on their ID card. That piece of plastic is more trans-formative and epistemic than one would at first understand. It allows one to hold the line and point and say, look here, I am legally a woman that cannot currently be done with a M on your ID. In many ways Thailand hasn't grappled with this yet, and the reality of legal LGBT relationships, and it's non-confrontational style of change management is not particularly speedy. In the west, this transformation didn't happen overnight, either, of course. The difference being that we're all too happy to tee off on each other over injustices, make alliances and flags, and slug it out ugly style on the evening news. For better or worse.
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Ah, I’ve never been to Da Nang. I didn’t see any ladyboys in Hanoi. I sure do want to visit someday though. Generally speaking there is always a LGBT migration to the most progressive cities. London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Hollywood, Berlin, Bangkok, Tokyo, etc. Life’s just easier when there is more of a critical mass. You should visit Bangkok someday when you can. You’ll see quite a few, I’m sure.
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