Bangkok is perhaps the most trans tolerant city in the world. Pat Pong Road is a funky transgender bar district in the Silom District of central Bangkok graced by easy sky train access through that skyscraper district. I used to go over there to shop for bootleg movie DVDs which now have become a dated technology, so I dont get over there much anymore. But it was amusing fun to walk into bar rooms filled with young males dancing in their fruit of the looms. But famous Khaosan Road, a backpacker hang out in the old city, has very recently become much more accommodating to transgender (katuoi) males who have started since Covid to work in the bars as dancers, and will now dance in the street in microskirts or hot pants and are quite open to being photographed. The biggest problems trans people have in Bangkok are western male hooligans from England or the USA looking to brawl. So the police used to shoo them away to "protect" the tourists--at least that is what it looked like was going on to me. So Khaosan can be depressing at times. It is not wise to mess with these people, because they do protect each other with gangs. There are trans characters in situation comedies on television, and trans children go to school and seem to fit in, even on Thursdays when all students are required to wear scout uniforms (though that tradition seems also to be disappearing). Pattaya, the largest beach/brothel town in the world, about sixty miles south of Bangkok has a large transgender scene. It seems that many trans people are relegated to hotel and barroom type work, I believe. I also believe that in Thailand there is an inheritance through the mother in which one of the boys may be raised as a girl, but I am no expert. I am sure there are gender experts who may know on campus. I always thought that Japan was a very open culture for gender bending young males wearing Hanzubon hot pants and coloring their hair pink, perhaps, like Greece, due to it being a maritime culture where women were left alone to tend the family while the husband worked on a ship. Elementary and middle school boys used to sing and dance and march around in their hanzubon short shorts on children's television shows and in movies, but no more. This tradition may be dying the more Japan is inspired by the Americans. Ask a Japanese student if boys still wear hanzubon in Japan. I believe in 1997 Japanese mothers went to the store in the spring and suddenly couldnt find them for their boys. There was a Japanese movie about a high school boys synchronize swimming team on You Tube, Waterboys, but it has been removed, (probably because I recommended it. I am censured for mentioning the strangest things on You Tube blogs) Ironically, what looks effeminate in our culture, is actually quite macho in another. Latino machismo can be quite flamboyant. Macho Mexico City passed gay rights legislation long before Minneapolis, and gender bending on the Reforma or in Guadalajara goes unnoticed. I have lived in both these cities. Daniel Sebold English/Spanish alumnus retired in Cambodia.