Posted on 06/18/2004 9:47:28 PM PDT by El Conservador
BANGKOK, Thailand - Snubbed by both men and women, transvestite students at the Chiang Mai Technology School just wanted a restroom to call their own — and were granted their wish.
Dubbed the Pink Lotus Bathroom, the facility is exclusively for the school's 15 transvestite students and features four stalls, but no urinals. On the door hangs a sign with intertwined male and female symbols.
"They would come in the morning and use the women's bathrooms, but the women were annoyed, didn't like it or played pranks on them," said Posaporn Promprakai, registrar of the school in Chiang Mai province, about 360 miles north of Bangkok.
The transvestites — who must wear male attire at school but are allowed to sport girlie hairdos — switched to the men's bathrooms, only to run into more trouble.
"The men teased them, chased them, and they came screaming and in tears again," Posaporn told The Associated Press.
So Posaporn designated a lavatory just for them, telling the vocational school's 1,500 students to just use their own restrooms.
The transvestite bathroom opened last fall, but this week attracted the notice of local media. Gays, cross-dressers and transsexuals are generally accepted in easygoing Thai society.
"We don't support their decision to be transvestites. We are just trying to solve the problems of one group that is unhappy at school," said Posaporn. "They don't get teased in the bathroom anymore. They're much happier."
"How long before some idiot liberal talks about "how enlightened" Thailand is, in comparison with "backward, parochial and redneck" US???
Hey! They are enlightened. You must just be one of those close-minded conservatives. :) HA!
But do they teach math? or is that too PC?
"They don't get teased in the bathroom anymore. They're much happier."
So, which is it? Are they accepted, or not?
been tried. The federal ADA SPECIFICALLY states that transexualism is not subject to the rules of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Therefore BY LAW there is no need ot accomondate people with the mental disease of transexualism.
I am just waiting, and it's probably not going to be too much longer, for some enlightened soul in California to file suit claiming that having gender specific bathrooms is clearly discriminatory and demand that all public restrooms be relabeled as unisex.
You can tell it's coming. Maybe not this week or next, but soon.
actually after the ERA failed, some feminists did try that. There are also "urinal equality" suits.
Feminists sued because the use of urinals gave men to many facilities in bathrooms. Thus if a mens bathroom had two urinals and two stalls, it was more accomodating than a womans restroom with three stalls. The net result was that some places agreed to remove one of the men's urinals instead of adding a fourth woman's stall.
Women should take note, men don't marry femnists. (of course the womyn of weaslly marry the womyn of wealsly.)
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"They don't get teased in the bathroom anymore. They're much happier."
Excuse me, but those two quotes contradict each other. If Thai society is so "easy going", why would the transexuals be teased in the boys' bathroom. Why did girls object to them being in the girls' bathroom?
That's not a good idea. There's lots of men who would just relieve themselves on the floor.
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