“Transvestite toilet” installed at school
Posted June 19th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.comA school in Bangkok, Thailand has added a third option to the standard “boys” and girls” bathrooms — a “transvestite toilet”.
The Kampang School in northeastern Thailand conducted a survey last term that showed more than 200 of the school’s 2,600 students considered themselves transgender, said school director Sitisak Sumontha.
So, when classes resumed in May, the school unveiled a unisex restroom designated by a human figure split in half — part man in blue and part woman in red. Below it are the words “Transvestite Toilet.”
Three transgender students praised the new restroom as they plucked their eyebrows and applied face powder in front of the mirror outside the stalls.
“I’m so happy about this,” Vichai Sangsakul, a teenager with a pixie hairdo pulled back with a pink barrette, told Thailand’s PBS news channel on Tuesday. “It looks bad going to female restrooms. What would other people think?”
The story doesn’t address is the fact the almost 8% of the school students identify as transgendered. Isn’t that incredibly high? Is it more of a fashion statement at this school than a legitimate gender identity?