Comments by "exnihilo415" (@exnihilo415) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. Depends on how many you think the word many represents. It’s 1 or 2 percent which some people think is a lot and others don’t. You can find trans women all over Issan or Lanna working in salons and retail jobs.
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  2. She’s got her own YouTube channel and posts occasionally.
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  3. Asking the important questions, right here.
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  4. Don’t give them any ideas.
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  5. Weirdly amazing. unnaturally beautiful freakishly adorable monstrously brave ladyboy!
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  6.  @imissminghao  Not a bad plan if you’re LGBT. It’s Indonesia’s loss for not having better policy.
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  7. Often true but not always. There are plenty of trans women on YouTube with perfectly feminine voices. There is also vocal fold surgery which tightens your vocal cords.
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  8.  @anikathu  It was nice talking with you. Stay dry out there!
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  9. It’s true that Thailand has a long way to go for real cis / trans equality. That said there is a high level of social tolerance all across Thailand and a lot less haters and violence is extremely rare. Unlike the west, there has been a distinct cultural role for trans women across South Asia for hundreds and hundreds of years. That distinction isn’t necessarily transphobia. It’s simply. It the same cultural interpretation of gender pluralism as the west. My wife is a Thai trans woman.
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  10. Money, time and effort. Trans women, as a rule, put in a ton of work into being girly.
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  11.  @aenhutv4877  Easier but not exactly easy, that’s for sure.
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  12. Unfortunately transphobia isn’t impossible.
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  13. ... and ladyboy Muay Thai fighters also. Look up nong toom and nong rose.
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  14. What makes you think that Thai trans women are all that different than trans women in America?
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  15.  @suckapunch565  What are you looking to have done? SRS? FFS? Anything else?
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  16.  @anonymous-cx7ng  She’s legally female. The county clerk said, “I now pronounce you husband and wife.”
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  17.  @anonymous-cx7ng  Her passport and ID say female. No wardrobe required.
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  18. @ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛɴᴇʏ ᴡʜɪᴛᴍᴏʀᴇ No worries. That’s part of the plan, to show others that some guys can, will and do respect trans women. In time maybe we can grow that “some” into a “lot” and the world will be a better place for trans people. Know hope.
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  19.  @hardyzme  I do not. My wife is legally female and marriage is a legal document. The country clerk said, “I now pronounce you husband and wife.”
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  20.  @camihiena  My wife is a woman to me and she is legally a woman. I've had long term relationships with gay men, cis women and trans women. Rest assured, I know exactly how gay it isn't to be in relationship with a trans woman having been in relationships with gay men and cis women. Seems like a world of actual experience you just haven't had. You are of course welcome to think absolutely anything you like, as am I.
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  21. False dichotomy. It’s both.
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  22. There are plenty of and actually a rapidly accelerating number of trans men.
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  23. Read some news articles about the new incoming patients at gender clinics, if you want to know about the metrics on trans men. I’d be happy to vote for a trans man being man of the year.
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  24. I accept trans men on an equal level with men. I’m hardly alone in this. Millions of others do as well. Don’t you?
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  25. You do realize there are vanishingly few Christians in Thailand, right? Trans women aren’t gay. Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things.
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  26.  @xpandora-6697  Who is? Ladyboys in Thailand? Not even. Only a few % of the population are Muslims in the south. Thailand is >90% Buddhist.
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  27. Femininity is in the eye of the beholder and consequently if they view a trans woman as a woman (as I do) then the sex they are having is heterosexual in their mind. Sexuality is also a spectrum. Plenty of Kinsey 1 or Kinsey 2 bisexuals out there that are mostly into women but don't mind a walk on the wild side once and a while, so why not?
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  28. It’s because it’s very difficult to be trans in many other countries so a smaller percentage of the trans population actually transitions. That makes Thailand seem like a lot by comparison.
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  29. It’s all good either way.
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  30.  @Renwoxing13  I'm not interested in the word trap because it doesn't originate from trans people themselves as an identification. It is a word forced upon trans people and not one they have chosen for themselves. It's basically hotness from the eye of the beer holder, with extra baggage. As a pansexual I can't be trapped. You can't trap the willing, after all.
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  31. Trans women have been a cultural part of many countries in Asia (and around the world) since antiquity.. Hijra in India. Khawaja Sira in Pakistan. Waria in Indonesia. Fa’afafine in Samoa. The list goes on and on. The sexual exploitation of women is a story as old as humanity itself. The reality is that the vast majority of trans women working non sex work jobs in salons and retail all over Thailand today. Sure, trans women and cis women alike in Thailand cashed in on the gold rush of sex work that proliferated during the American War in Vietnam and after which is the case wherever many single men and/or war come together. It is however, not the origin story of trans women which is as old as humanity itself.
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  32.  @jo3546  To do any of this justice would require an entire wing of a library, of course. I'll just say that gender pluralism in south east Asia in the historical record is much more complex and varied than the western binary convention. For all the details you can read Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times by by Michael G. Peletz. I'm not interested in litigating the role of reproduction in historical global conflict here so much as I'm interested in respecting the dignity of trans people, ladyboys, Toms, and 3rd gender individuals and recognizing their lives as fully faceted and meaningful and distinct from sex work itself that they may or may not be engaged in. My wife is a Thai trans woman. Marrying her was the best decision I ever made. I for one am glad that content producers like Asian Boss bring more awareness to this topic so that the attendant sociology here can be explored by more people from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds.
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  33. You’ve never seen a trans person? Where do you live? How difficult would it be to be trans in the society where you live? The answer to that last question may be why you see any.
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  34. I live in San Francisco. I see a handful of trans people every week. I mean, I don’t know they are trans for a fact but I do know what I’m looking for as my wife is a Thai trans woman (obviously she’s not included in my counts). Clearly I see more in Bangkok. I take it you haven’t been to Thailand or the Philippines or India?
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  35. My wife is a Thai trans woman and we have no interest in having children. If you have any questions, just ask.
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  36. Ok, poor reader.
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  37. Plenty of Thai trans girls can been seen working regular retail and salon jobs all over Thailand. There has been a cultural role for trans women all over South Asia long before Columbus sailed the Atlantic. Trans women transition because they want to look like and be treated as women.
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  38. The vast majority of Thai trans women are not sex workers. You can see them all over untouristed Thailand working retail and salon jobs. Every high school graduating class has a few.
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  39. Gender is a social construct, performance and/or an identity. It isn’t biology. You can have a female voicemail system voiced by a computer or a female mannequin. That said, intersex people exist. Look it up.
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  40. Gender isn’t biology.
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  41. Do a google search for Buck Angel and tell me that he should be, as a trans man, in the women’s restroom.
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  42. Very few people are completely happy with their look. Passing some arbitrary test of beauty should not be the bar for getting into the bathroom of the gender that you know you are in your heart.
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  43.  @wolvygrei9908  I do believe it but it’s more like 20 out of 100 for T and 10 out of 100 for GLB. Not exactly great.
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  44. If you're someone's friend, why wouldn't you care?
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  45. That happens very rarely. No one wants to waste their time, after all. Pervasive transphobia exists for many reasons apart from the low number of occurrences of this.
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  46. Genetically a trans woman is XY, in most cases, but a trans woman after an orchiectomy and shooting estrogen is not hormonally male. Endocrinology is biology. The Y chromosome has very little information on it and most of it is about creating structures which also change hormone balance that the trans woman has had removed. If you read up on edge cases like androgen insensitivity syndrome you can see this clearly. Trans woman in Thailand can’t legally change their gender. Nor can they legally marry their husbands.
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  47. Sex changes go back a long way. First US citizen to have one was Christine Jorgensen in 1952, in Europe. The first one done was in Europe as far back as 1930. Thailand does do as many sex changes as the rest of the world combined today, though. Interesting to hear about ladyboys during the Vietnam war. Not much is written about that. Were you at U-Tapao?
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  48. There are trans people in every country. No big deal. You’ve never met a trans person before?
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  49. I lead a quiet circumspect life too, my wife just happens to be trans. You should visit Thailand someday. Take care.
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  50. The trans girls in the thumbnail are that easy to clock?
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