Thai Military scraps offending label against gays | NowPublic News Coverage

Thai Military scraps offending label against gays

by Roger_jg | April 2, 2006 at 12:14 am

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"The military has scrapped its 52-year-old practice of describing
transvestites undergoing the annual military conscription as having a
''mental disorder''. The offending label, used since the military
conscription law was first enforced in 1954 to exempt men with feminine
manners or those who underwent breast enlargement or sex change
surgery, became history from yesterday."

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mattymatt

at 22:13 on April 3rd, 2006

the, um, link doesn't work.

Roger_jg

at 00:26 on April 4th, 2006

It's not a Permalink...

But the article is available in the Archives section free for 7 days

(registration requiered)

http://archives.mybangkokpost.com/bkkarchives/frontstore/news.html

ladyboy

at 13:43 on November 11th, 2006

Yes Thailand changing good now, ladyboy can job as air hostess and working in bank, and some ladyboy can be teacher or office job, people stop to think bad so much as before, Happy happy

Ladyboy kat