Why are there so many Ladyboys in Thailand? Answer No.1

Every month we get a couple of emails from our readers in which they ask this question: “Why are there so many Ladyboys in Thailand?”

On the net you can find lots of explanations, most of them are complete nonsense. Like “What do they have in the water, that makes so many Ladyboys?”
The answer is rather simple. In fact, there are three reasons for the “Ladyboy-Phenomenon”.

In the following days I will give all three to you. Today, I will start with the first one.

The economical reason

Other than in the West the bonds between family members are much stronger. If somebody in your family is in trouble (i.e. debt, hospital) the other members of the family have to help them out.

Also, there is no kind of public old age pension. The younger family members have to support the old as much as they can.

But if a boy grows up, he will have his own family that he has to provide for and who can therefore spend less money on his parents and grandparents.
But if a boy grows up and becomes a Ladyboy, he who is then a she won´t have a family. They will just work for their own livelihood and are able to support their parents much more than their brothers.

So it is sure now economical disadvantage for the parents if their son becomes a daughter.
In addition, many young Ladyboy students learn languages much easier than the boys at their age which enables them to work in business or tourism later where they have a higher income.

And even if they stay in their home, they can still work in the rice fields like the other women and men do too. But other than their male siblings they won´t spend their money on fast motorbikes and whiskey.

This means having a Ladyboy daughter is not the worst deal for Thai parents.

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