Up in the air as a woman

[Shana A]

Up in the air as a woman

A transsexual, physically a woman but legally a man, opens her female heart

Story by KRITTIYA WONGTAVAVIMARN Main photo by YINGYONG UN-ANONGRAK

http://www.bangkokpost.com/Outlook/25Mar2008_out001.php

While a young boy riding on the back of a buffalo plodding through muddy rice fields in Lampang province, Kiranunt Suwannasingha looked up at the aeroplane flying among the fluffy clouds in the sky. "I was wondering what the giant metal bird was doing up there. And I wished I could ride on it some day," Kiranunt recalled.