Motherly Love

BangkokPost.com – Sanitsuda Ekachai

A mother’s support and love gives her transsexual child the strength and confidence to fight prejudice

Her husband’s ultimate dream was to have a son. But the first son she bore him lived for only eight hours. Their second son is now a transsexual.

As a wife, Boonyok Boonyapisomparn may have not fulfilled her Chinese family’s expectations of a male heir. But as a mother, her unconditional love is unrivalled. And it is this love that has enabled her transsexual child to stand tall against the odds.