Originally Posted by
tangoll
In Thailand, there is now growing demand to provide separate lavatories in schools for transgenders, ie boys who think of themselves as girls, dress and act like girls. So, separate lavs on planes might mean having to provide for transgenders, as least on Thai Airways.
A couple of comments here.
First, it is transgender, not transgenders.
Second and more importantly a transgender person is not one who thinks of themselves as the opposite sex, they are a person trapped in the body of the opposite sex. (i.e. male in a female body, female in a male body). They dress according to who they are (i.e. a female even though we see a male body).
I have many friends who are transgender, none of them would say they act like girls/boys - they would say they
are girls/boys (well male/female actually as they are past puberty and no longer a girl or boy)