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For teen boys who prefer to dress as girls at one rural high
school in Thailand, taking a bathroom break no longer means
choosing between "male" and "female" restrooms. There's now 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?"
