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**sessoorale** · 09-21-2012, 11:27 AM

I lived in Bangkok for the first 13 years of my life. (Will have been in the US for 30 years this fall) Having known since birth that I was born a gay man, I never like being called katoey.

Gay is Gay.
Katoey is Katoey.
Its different.
Gay is the loving between the same gender. Man love man, woman love woman, etc.
Katoey aka ladyboy is man who feels he's actually a woman and behave like a woman and eventually undergoes operations to become a woman... some don't take the operations (financial difficulties), but just take the female hormones and grow lumps on their chest.
A cross dresser is a man who dress up to become a woman and might not have undergone any sex change operations.

"Toms" or aka "BUTCH" are woman who feels they're man but they don't undergo sex-change operations... normally they jus wrap up their boobs and dress themselves in men clothings... thought i've heard Thai call all lesbians "Tom" too.....

I don't think "Queen" is a common word among Thai?

Oh, "Bi" is a common word too which means "bi-sexual"....

09-21-2012, 11:27 AM	#6
sessoorale Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 463 Senior Member	I lived in Bangkok for the first 13 years of my life. (Will have been in the US for 30 years this fall) Having known since birth that I was born a gay man, I never like being called katoey. Gay is Gay. Katoey is Katoey. Its different. Gay is the loving between the same gender. Man love man, woman love woman, etc. Katoey aka ladyboy is man who feels he's actually a woman and behave like a woman and eventually undergoes operations to become a woman... some don't take the operations (financial difficulties), but just take the female hormones and grow lumps on their chest. A cross dresser is a man who dress up to become a woman and might not have undergone any sex change operations. "Toms" or aka "BUTCH" are woman who feels they're man but they don't undergo sex-change operations... normally they jus wrap up their boobs and dress themselves in men clothings... thought i've heard Thai call all lesbians "Tom" too..... I don't think "Queen" is a common word among Thai? Oh, "Bi" is a common word too which means "bi-sexual"....
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