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Monday, June 9, 2014

Thai Transgender Power

1) She is the manager of a French cosmetic company.

2) She was born as a boy, but she didn't want to have any relationships with girls. She decided to be a transgendered person instead of being a gay because she wanted to be a woman from the appearance that everybody sees her. She doesn't drink and smoke at all. She is a vegetalian.

3) When she went to a nightclub on a Friday night, she had to show her identity card to prove that she was over eighteen years old. She showed her driver's license to a receptionist, but he/she rejected her. The receptionist said like this, "I'm sorry, we cannot allow any transgendered person because of our policy."

4) Affected by Crystal's experience, the assembly in Thailand wrote equal rights for gays and transgendered people into its constitution for the first time in its history.

5) I am not familiar with the law, but I guess gays or transgendered people don't have equal rights in Japan. It seems that such people are sometimes discriminated more or less. Even though fundamental human rights are respected in the Constitution of Japan, it is strange that gays or transgendered people don't have equal rights just as the other people do. It might be hard to make changes like the case in Thailand, but there must be those who need some changes in the constitution. Chances are that there will be some changes in the constitution when a woman like Crystal starts to take a leadership role in asserting equal rights for gays or transgendered people.