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Thai culture has a long history of being inclusive of gender roles outside of “man” and “woman.” Yet while many tourists may gain some exposure to Thailand’s transgender community through cabaret shows or LGBTQ nightlife, one Thai transgender woman has made it her mission to provide tourists a much deeper education about her community’s history. Recently, while in Bangkok, I attended a two-hour talk about her life with five other tourists as part of an AirBnB experience. Photo on display at Bangkok’s DJ Station LGBTQ nightclub A Transgender Tour Guide to 50 Years of Thai History The host of the AirBnB experience asked I keep her name and her employer’s name confidential, so in this post I’ll refer to her as Jip. Jip is now a cabaret performer at one of Thailand’s most prestigious cabarets, and identifies as kathoey and transgender. However, she actually spent most of her career as a computer programmer, where she kept her identity secret for fear of discrimination until coming out in 2002. During the talk, she explained her own story living in the 1970s through today, and brought pictures to illustrate important moments in Thai transgender history during her life. Photo on display at Bangkok’s DJ Station LGBTQ nightclub But before I share some of her story, it’s important to explain the term, “kathoey,” also often loosely translated to “ladyboy.” Kathoey is a Thai gender/sexual identity with thousands of years of history, going back to Buddhist origin myths in the Tipiṭaka written in the 1st Century BC. For much of Buddhist and Thai history, kathoey has been seen as a “third gender” existing outside of man/woman, and as part of the natural cycle of rebirth. Many kathoeys live as effeminate/homosexual men, while others express their gender in a way closer to cisgender women, sometimes

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