Thailand has just elected its first transgender MP

NEWS: She's trans, she's bisexual - and she was just elected as an MP in Thailand.

Image of Tanwarin Sukkhapisit

กอล์ฟ ธัญญ์วาริน สุขะพิสิษฐ์ ใช้โซเชียลมีเดียเพื่อฉลองชัยชนะครั้งประวัติศาสตร์ Source: Facebook

Thai filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit has made history this week, becoming the first transgender MP elected in Thailand.

Sukkhapisit, whose previous film Insects in the Backyard was for being "against public morals", ran as a candidate with the newly formed

Her experience with film censorship, which made her feel "like a terrorist", soon became her motivation to move into politics and become an agitator for change.

You can read the full version of this story in English on SBS Sexuality .


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Published 27 March 2019 1:52pm
Updated 27 March 2019 2:00pm
By Samuel Leighton-Dore
Presented by Tanu Attajarusit
Source: Facebook, SBS Sexuality


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