Independent.co.uk – By David McNeill in Bangkok
Lithe, peach-skinned and demure, Arttasit is the kind of woman who would turn heads on any college campus, except that he is not a woman; not yet.
The 21-year-old catering student attends class in Thailand’s Suan Dusit University wearing makeup and a body-hugging female uniform. After four years of hormone treatment, he is preparing for a full sex change. “My goal in life is to become accepted as a woman,” he explains.
There are about 100 transgender undergraduates at this college in central Bangkok, which offers the so-called “lady-boys” a unique educational refuge from homophobia and discrimination…