การเติบโตของอุตสาหกรรมการแปลงเพศในประเทศไทย: บทบาทผู้หลากหลายทางเพศ การขายบริการทางเพศ และสถานพยาบาลเพื่อการแปลงเพศ

Abstract

This research paper aims to study the role of gender diverse groups and medical facilities for sex reassignment surgery for making Thailand became to sex reassignment surgery destination. It is based on in-depth interviews with representatives of Lgbtq+ people, Hospitals and travel agencie. The research found that the growth of the transgender industry in Thailand was driven by two main groups in the industry: First, gender diverse and prostitution. Secound, medical facilities for sex reassignment surgery. The role of these two groups were rooted in the sex industry. Lgbtq+ people have been a major contributor to the industry's growth in gender transgenderism, as a result of which a number of them have entered the sex industry and the growth of cabaret performances. Who actors must look and look like women bring them to surgery and sex reassignment sugery. This damand factor causes medical facilities for sex reassignment surgery in Thailand for respond to lgbtq+ groups who would like to do sex reassignment surgery. The bubble economy crisis in 1997,Thailand promoted about tourism caused the hospitals expanded to focus more on targeting foreign customers. As a result of these demand-supply factors, the transgender industry in Thailand eventually grew up.