'Third sex' get their own restroom at Thai college

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BANGKOK (AFP) - Transvestites and transsexuals at a private Thai college have been given their own restroom after being humiliated by classmates, a school administrator revealed.


Chiang Mai Technology College has designated a "pink lotus" bathroom for use by about 15 of its 1,500 students after the group encountered difficulties using male and female bathrooms.


"We are not supporting them to become transvestites or gay, we merely wanted to solve their problems and make them happy when they are at college," Thodsaporn Promprakai, the assistant director for students affairs, told AFP.


Several female co-eds had complained when the transgender students were found using the girls' room to escape the teasing and bullying of men in the boys' room, Thodsaporn said Friday.

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