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Thursday, June 5, 2014

transgender rights and military coup of Thailand

Answers to the five questions of the short movie Transgender Power
1. What was Crystal's job? A: brand manager
    What Co. did she work for? A: L'Occitane

2. Something more interesting about Crystal.
A: Crystal is homosexual from childhood, his troy was always a doll, he always role played mom in the game of mom and dad, he didn't want to have relationship with girl. So instead of being a gay, he took the option of being a transgender. However, it was difficult for his mom who is a professor and father who is a doctor to accept  their boy becoming a transgender.  Crystal doesn't drink and smoke, he is a vegetarian, he is open and sociable during his work.

3. What happened to her?
A: At 1100pm, June 22, 2007, he was not allowed into the Concept CM2 nightclub in Bangkok's Novotel Silom Hotel because he is a transgender.

4. As a result of what happened to crystal, what was the changes made in the Constitution of Thailand?
A: Thailand would have transgender and gay rights.

5. How about comparing Japan to the Thailand situation of this news article and the events of social changes in Thailand?
A: I think gay, lesbian is tolerated but they are not legitimated by the law in Japan as we can see that there are so many men who dress themselves like woman especially in Shinjuku and Akihabara etc.

Idea of military coup in Thailand
I did some research on military coups which occurred in Thailand, what amazed me is that since Thailand adopted constitutional monarchy at 1932, 20 military coups have happened. It seems that Thai regards military coup as a way of solving problems, and they think that what is overthrown by military is not the government but the current political situation. And it seems that the citizens of Thailand have already been accustomed to military coups. I think military coup can cure the symptoms which is the unstable current situation, but it can't cure the disease which is in his political system.