Friday January 28, 2011
New Thai airline hires transsexual stewardesses
P.C. Air – a new airline in Thailand – has hired three transsexuals among its first batch of air hostesses, Sin Chew Daily reported.
The successful candidates include Miss Tiffany Universe 2007 winner Thanyarat Jiraphatpakorn, 23.
They will be given a "third sex name tag" while on duty to avoid immigration issues.
Miss Tiffany Universe is the most popular beauty pageant contest for the community.
It is an annual event held in Pattaya. (read more)
Friday, February 11, 2011
Lady Boy???
Labels.
I hate labels.
Labels.
Heard this story on Kiss 100 FM today morning on the Big Breakfast and I thought to myself, "what a nice thing to do". But then I was like, why specifically "transsexual"? Why even go further and say "lady boys"? Why not just say "transsexuals are also encouraged to apply" so that its a level playing field?
Just a thought... you tell me
XOXO
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I think it's a publicity stunt by the airline and not nearly as "enlightened" as they want you to think. It's tokenism. Third sex? Yuck.
If they are serious, they need to ditch the 'third gender' ID tags and give the trans employees the same tags as ever other employee in the airline.
Having specialized tags could open them up to discrimination from less than enlightened passengers and customs officials
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