A proposal that would allow transgender men and women to choose how they are
addressed is being considered by the country's National Legislative Assembly to
support an anti-discrimination provision in the draft constitution, Thai
newspapers reported.
Wiroon Tangcharoen, an assembly member who is also rector of Srinakharinwirot
University, said he supported the move and did not think it would affect room
assignments in dorms, where students are segregated by sex, the Nation said.
Students wishing to live with members of their adopted gender would have to
produce medical certificates proving they had sex-change operations, he said.
"The university has nothing against male transsexual students staying in female
dormitories on the campus," he was quoted as saying.
Three years ago, a college in Chiang Mai designated a bathroom for 15
cross-dressing students. The transvestites -- who had to wear male attire but
were allowed to sport feminine hairdos -- had annoyed female students when
using the women's bathrooms, and faced harassment in the men's facilities.
