This Thai transgender girl band may be popular, but it's no stranger to rude questions

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.