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Transsexuals Given the Freedom to Be Flight Attendants with a Thai Airline

January 28, 2011 at 9:36 AM | by | Comments (0)


Thanyarat Jiraphatpakorn, a transsexual beauty queen and your next PC Air flight attendant

It's one small step for a transsexual, but one giant leap for alternative sexuality-kind. Thailand's PC Air (yeah, we've never heard of them either), has begun openly recruiting for transsexual flight attendants, hiring a former beauty pageant queen as one of their first "third sex" trolly dollies.

This comes at a time when US Passport forms have finally caught on to gay parenting by removing gender specifications and airlines are actively filling their flights—bringing on special performers or having a gay marriage in flight—with travelers paying with the "pink dollar." Just don't get us started on that term, one now being used by the travel industry to refer to the spending power of gay travelers. It's all money! Ah, but we digress.

The AFP has the deal on the first transsexual round of FA hiring at PC Air:

Thailand has one of the largest transsexual populations in the world and its surgeons have pioneered ever cheaper and quicker sex change techniques for those opting to go under the scalpel.

But the airline does not require applicants to have gone through a surgical procedure, merely that they meet job criteria, including language skills and good service.

'When it's their dream job or the job they love, they can do it even better,' [PC Air CEO] Chan said.

Many of the applicants stated that they had been discriminated against in previous job interviews with other airlines, but here's the weird part: even though they will be regular stewardesses with PC Air, because of possibly customs issues, they will have to wear a "third sex" nametag pinned to their uniform. That is just not right, but unfortunately necessary if they want to work certain flights that land in countries with a more closed outlook.

And now we could make a joke about AirTran, but we won't because we like to think we're classier than that.

[Photo: confirmcekap]

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