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Here is something to think about :-
Why are there so many ladyboys in LOS, particularly from the poorest part of the country, Issan?
How come so many of them only look remotely Thai?
How come so many LBs are so tall & way better looking than their natural sisters?
How does a male who develops into a ladyboy often not go on to grow the larger male head with an Adams Apple?
I believe the answers are linked & point to an ugly truth about ladyboys & Thailand.
Just why does Thailand have such a high number of boys who develop as females, far more than natural occurrence would predict? Perhaps an extra chromosome appears sporadically due to centuries of inbreeding (maybe, I can't say that for sure) & who knows what other factors. But the sheer scale of transgendered boys emanating from one region specifically. i.e. Issan, defies all logic. And the switch is one way, how often do we hear of girls becoming men?
For a boy who decides for himself to change sex is only capable of making that decision once he is mature enough to consider his options, i.e. after puberty. But our favourite ladyboys, the stunners in the bars & on the websites had the decision made for them long before the onset of male hormones & the body changes that come with puberty. A male has on average a head 50% larger than a female. In Asia the disparity may not be so much, I am no anthropologist, I just know when I see a ladyboy who swapped over from being gay in her later years looks nothing like the cuties we admire here on TLF. Our girls never got to grow into a male in the first place.
I have been told that it is the matriarch, usually the grandmother of an Issan family who will make the decision as to which of the boy children will be made a ladyboy. Yes, MADE!! They arrange for the child to be given hormones & the rest is history. And one of the side effects of this oestrogen regime plus whatever else is the height the kids grow to plus the smoother features making them altogether prettier than their siblings.
But that still doesn't explain the quite varied & exotic look of some of them. IMO these are the offspring of bargirl & farang encounters who, tragically, are seen as a financial burden, not as a loved member of the extended family. And please don't berate me with claims that all kids are loved no matter who the parents are. Many are but there is still those who are seen as expendable. Just as the girls are sent off to the nightlife areas to earn a living the best they can with the aim to support their family, now with the help of medical intervention, the boys are sent too.
And ladyboys these days are considered a good investment, they can't fall pregnant & they stay working till the end of the careers. After all, who is going to marry a ladyboy? In Thai society the thought is unimaginable. I don't know what they think of farangs falling in love & taking them back to their own country. As long as there are regular payments sent home, why would they care?
So the preponderance of new, pretty LBs isn't some localised freak of reproduction where the progeny of regular Issan farming families mysteriously started changing sex, they are the end result of a plan to create the perfect money making machine. And yes, I know how coldly clinical that sounds in the light of how many ladyboys have wonderful relationships with their families. It is impossible to present facts & still cover every contingency.
I know I have made a lot of generalisations here & I mean no disrespect whatsoever to any of the BMs happily living with their LB partner. I post this for consideration & comment.
Why are there so many ladyboys in LOS, particularly from the poorest part of the country, Issan?
How come so many of them only look remotely Thai?
How come so many LBs are so tall & way better looking than their natural sisters?
How does a male who develops into a ladyboy often not go on to grow the larger male head with an Adams Apple?
I believe the answers are linked & point to an ugly truth about ladyboys & Thailand.
Just why does Thailand have such a high number of boys who develop as females, far more than natural occurrence would predict? Perhaps an extra chromosome appears sporadically due to centuries of inbreeding (maybe, I can't say that for sure) & who knows what other factors. But the sheer scale of transgendered boys emanating from one region specifically. i.e. Issan, defies all logic. And the switch is one way, how often do we hear of girls becoming men?
For a boy who decides for himself to change sex is only capable of making that decision once he is mature enough to consider his options, i.e. after puberty. But our favourite ladyboys, the stunners in the bars & on the websites had the decision made for them long before the onset of male hormones & the body changes that come with puberty. A male has on average a head 50% larger than a female. In Asia the disparity may not be so much, I am no anthropologist, I just know when I see a ladyboy who swapped over from being gay in her later years looks nothing like the cuties we admire here on TLF. Our girls never got to grow into a male in the first place.
I have been told that it is the matriarch, usually the grandmother of an Issan family who will make the decision as to which of the boy children will be made a ladyboy. Yes, MADE!! They arrange for the child to be given hormones & the rest is history. And one of the side effects of this oestrogen regime plus whatever else is the height the kids grow to plus the smoother features making them altogether prettier than their siblings.
But that still doesn't explain the quite varied & exotic look of some of them. IMO these are the offspring of bargirl & farang encounters who, tragically, are seen as a financial burden, not as a loved member of the extended family. And please don't berate me with claims that all kids are loved no matter who the parents are. Many are but there is still those who are seen as expendable. Just as the girls are sent off to the nightlife areas to earn a living the best they can with the aim to support their family, now with the help of medical intervention, the boys are sent too.
And ladyboys these days are considered a good investment, they can't fall pregnant & they stay working till the end of the careers. After all, who is going to marry a ladyboy? In Thai society the thought is unimaginable. I don't know what they think of farangs falling in love & taking them back to their own country. As long as there are regular payments sent home, why would they care?
So the preponderance of new, pretty LBs isn't some localised freak of reproduction where the progeny of regular Issan farming families mysteriously started changing sex, they are the end result of a plan to create the perfect money making machine. And yes, I know how coldly clinical that sounds in the light of how many ladyboys have wonderful relationships with their families. It is impossible to present facts & still cover every contingency.
I know I have made a lot of generalisations here & I mean no disrespect whatsoever to any of the BMs happily living with their LB partner. I post this for consideration & comment.
that requires further investigation, which leaves the hormones. Does the average poor Isarn/else where rice/other farmer/labourer family have spare Bhat for the luxuries of hormones??. The girls we meet in the popular bars are pretty much the cream of the cream. As others have pointed out on the fringes you find the odd pearl, but mostly it's "pretty femboy" in a frock.
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