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News and Events => Arts & Entertainment News => Topic started by: LostInTime on March 26, 2007, 04:40:49 AM

Title: OY! ARE YOU MEN OR ARE YOU GIRLS?
Post by: LostInTime on March 26, 2007, 04:40:49 AM
This Thai transgender girl band may be popular, but it's no stranger to rude questions (http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,125636,00.html)

Except for the over-enthusiastic display of the latest makeup colours on one of its member's faces, the others were lightly made up.

One even met me bare-faced.

This reporter looked hard for telltale signs of masculinity and there were just hints.

Some hands were slightly larger than that of a woman's, the voices were lower and there is always the shadow of an adam's apple.

But aside from these details, the five-members of Venus Flytrap could walk down the street and none of us would be any wiser.

The group started in Bangkok as a product of an open audition with a twist - you had to be a ladyboy.