''It is not necessary. I really didn't want to go through that process, so I decided to have the operation... before the law is enforce.... I don't like this part of me because I don't use it. I don't know why I have it. If I had a vagina, I would use it.''
Punlop Tongchai, 27, and a newly post-operative transgender woman who works as a cabaret dancer in Thailand, a country that has a reputation for developing something of an affordable sex-change industry. She is saying she would rather not have to comply with rules going into effect last week that will require psychological counseling, a waiting period of one year, hormone therapy, and the experience of living as a woman for a year. There has been a fear that some men have rushed into unnecessary "castrations." (Telegraph.co.uk) (Associated Press)
''I got so many calls where they said they are so sorry that they did a sex change. They make a big mistake and they want to come back and be the same. But they cannot!''
Nathee Teerarojanapong, a gay rights campaigner in Thailand who thinks a new law requiring transgender people to wait one year before having gender reassignment surgery. (Telegraph.co.uk)
