Ladyboys the Documentary
Ladyboys the TV show began like this: Evening on Convent Street in Silom.
It’s hot, fucking hot and humid and just getting dark and I am sweating as I listen to question after question as we stand on the road together.
Thailand: Everyman
She is back in my bed again.
She is back in my heart again.
As we exit the MRT at Huay Kwang the sky is heavy.
‘It rain’, she says.
‘Storm come’, I say.
I ask her why she wants to pray.
‘I think you know Dawid’.
I have no idea but I feel nervous for a reason I cannot tell.
Why are there so many Ladyboys in Thailand?
Thailand has the highest rate of Transsexuals throughout the world. According to some academics, the numbers differ from about 10,000 to (unofficially) 300,000. Even if the number of 10,000 is an accurate one, it would still represent an incidence substantially above that estimated for transgender people in most other parts of the world.