5/07/2012 at 07:20 PM | The Bangkok Post
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Yollada "Nok" Suanyos, a transgender councillor on the Nan provincial administration organisation,
says he-she has been criticised by many people for wearing a skirt to work and has called on the public to give
equal rights to transgender people.
The 30-year-old model-actress-singer and provincial official said he-she would like people to understand the
difference between rights and duties. The duties assigned to a gender group were not compatible with
their rights, he-she said.
"I want to express myself, so that many more men will accept the transgender group and treat us like normal
women.
"There is no third gender under the law in this country yet. Many people who have already had a sex-change
operation, like me, have been sexually harrassed, but the law does not protect us.
"I think that wearing a dress is a symbol of showing our femininity and it would make men respect us," Mr Yollada said.
Ms Yollada, a former transvestite beauty queen, graduated with a science degree from Thammasat
University when he-she was 21 and later obtained a master's degree in political science.
He-she gained widespread admiration for his unrelenting campaign for legal recognition of the third gender.
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Yollada "Nok" Suanyos, a transgender councillor on the Nan provincial administration organisation,
says he-she has been criticised by many people for wearing a skirt to work and has called on the public to give
equal rights to transgender people.
The 30-year-old model-actress-singer and provincial official said he-she would like people to understand the
difference between rights and duties. The duties assigned to a gender group were not compatible with
their rights, he-she said.
"I want to express myself, so that many more men will accept the transgender group and treat us like normal
women.
"There is no third gender under the law in this country yet. Many people who have already had a sex-change
operation, like me, have been sexually harrassed, but the law does not protect us.
"I think that wearing a dress is a symbol of showing our femininity and it would make men respect us," Mr Yollada said.
Ms Yollada, a former transvestite beauty queen, graduated with a science degree from Thammasat
University when he-she was 21 and later obtained a master's degree in political science.
He-she gained widespread admiration for his unrelenting campaign for legal recognition of the third gender.
impressive.
