Pioneer Thai transgender MPs ‘not here for decoration’
Thailand's first transgender MP Tanwarin Sukkhapisit of the Future Forward Party arrives to vote for the new Speaker of the House of Representatives of Parliament, at the Telephone Organisation of Thailand building, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 25, 2019. – EPA pic, July 1, 2019.
SMILING broadly, Tanwarin triumphantly cast her vote for prime minister as the first transgender MPs enter parliament in Thailand, where tolerance for the LGBT community is not matched by understanding or opportunity in public life. In a sign of that enduring gap, the elderly speaker called for “Mr Tanwarin” to come forward in a vote late Wednesday that saw former junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha elected as premier with the help of a bank of 250 appointed senators.
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