Thailand crowns transgender beauty queen

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  Thai contestant Jiratchaya Sirimongkolnawin is crowned Miss International Queen 2016 at a contest billed as the world's largest and most popular transgender pageant. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

Thailand crowns transgender beauty queen
by Reuters Videos1:04 mins
Thai contestant Jiratchaya Sirimongkolnawin is crowned Miss International Queen 2016 at a contest billed as the world's largest and most popular transgender pageant. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

 

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Sirimongkolnawin was a fine-arts student and is now a fashion designer. (Photo: Reuters)
“Many of the contestants have had trouble being accepted by their families,” Alisa Phanthusak, chair of Miss International Queen’s pageant committee, told CNN on Thursday. “So we’re trying to bring up their self-esteem. It’s not just beauty we are looking for. It’s confidence.”
Thailand is known as the “gay capital of Asia.” Boys between the ages of 11 and 18 are trained to “shed their girlishness” by Buddhist monks and banned from using makeup.

 

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