THAI "ladyboys" line up with hundreds of young men for a big weigh-in to decide who will be called up for military service.
It has become an annual tradition as some self-styled ladyboys put on glamorous dresses and makeup to celebrate their femininity as they line up with other would-be conscripts. The bizarre scenes are a ritual every April as Thai men over 21 must either choose to serve six months in the Army or enter a conscription lottery.Parents watch anxiously outside the registration centres as men draw lots, greeted by cheers and groans.Anti-junta political parties are calling for the end of conscription and the reduction of the military budget and vowed to reform the armed forces in the recent election.
Lieutenant Colonel Ongard Jamdee, in charge of a recruitment centre in Bangkok, said: “The army is instructed to treat and respect transgender women as women.”Mum drops baby to his death from escalator after losing her balance‘BOY BYE’Superstar magician David Blaine probed over alleged sex attacks on two womenNEVER NEVERThailand is seen by some as a paradise for transgender women, who feature widely on television, in beauty pageants and at hair salons and cosmetics counters.
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