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Friday, June 6, 2014

Answers and evaluation on the Thailand transgender video

Q. What's her job?
A. She works in L'Occitane, French cosmetic company, and she is shop manager of one of its outlet.

Q. Tell us more interesting thing about her.
A. She was born as a man. But from her early age, she felt that her inner-gender didn't correspond with her appearance, and she liked man. So, instead of being a gay, she became transgendered person. Also, she is vegetarian, doesn't smoke. At her workplace, she works well on her job.

Q. What happened to Crystal?
A. On June 22, 2007, she was rejected to enter the Concept CM2 nightclub of Novotel hotel because she was transgendered person. After the incident, she appeared on media such as TV and newspaper, to claim her rights.

Q. As a result of the happening, there were big changes of constitution in Thailand. What was the change?
A. Admitting equal rights for all gays and transgendered people on its constitution.

Q. How about Japan compared to Thailand, regarding what we saw on the video.
A. Nowadays, many countries, including Thailand, are starting to admit the rights or same-gender marriages. But I think Japan is relatively falling behind with these problems. For example, Japanese constitution doesn't really admits same-gender marriage. I think it is necessary for us to understand and discuss about this problem more.