🃏💃🤡

[Nik 🪐 @gemzcore]

They dragging you on Twitter

[yammi @sighyam]

Hi. Thai here.

Almost nobody in Thailand uses the term “ladyboy” when discussing trans identity in Thai. The word is an orientalist construction and is a Western projection that exists only within English speaking contexts.

What these viral misinformed takes always leave out is that trans women in Thailand use feminine language in the exact same way cis women do, and they are addressed as women by almost everyone whether they are conservatives, men, women, children, monks etc.

Unlike Indonesia, very few people in Thailand spend time policing other people’s use of language, which restrooms they use and how they choose to live their lives.

These hot takes from people stems from one thing: the fact that most of you have never actually known a trans person, listened to a trans person, or opened your hearts to one in real life.

And you certainly don’t understand how Thai language functions either. In Thailand this is almost unthinkable as Trans people are normalised members of society.

You can’t avoid trans people in Thailand because they don’t need to hide. If their family doesn’t accept them, they still have friends and the larger Thai community to lean on.

They are doctors, nurses, business owners, entertainers, teachers, service workers, creatives, athletes, and more. While you’re all busy debating bathroom politics and indulging in religious and political hysteria, the world keeps turning in Thailand lol

I see this discourse often and it really does expose how colonial language hierarchies erase the nuance of non-Western gender systems - systems that, while imperfect and still evolving, have long recognised identities beyond the narrow Western binary and flatten them into stereotypes for global consumption.

I’ve said this before but social media algorithms amplify English-language content to the rest of the world while Thai opinions remain trapped within Thailand’s content ecosystem. That asymmetry is exactly why so many of you speak about Thais instead of with Thais and it’s why your understanding of Thai trans identity will always sound like a mistranslation.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

one has to wonder why the prime minister of fucking israel is so invested in mourning an american podcaster

[𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐬🥷🏾 @lordbrazes]

the french would rather burn paris to the ground than be forced to have a job for two more years, gotta respect that.

[ClitPiercing @RubyReplieshere]

charlie kirks wife kissed a silicon hand and tried to stoke a civil war while cadance owens posted a tribute that looks like a dead wife flashback im fucking dying bro

[Natasha @NatashaNonBuono]

Ironically, this is actually more sincere and heartfelt that what his actual wife has posted

[inhumans of capitalism ( The reactionary ) @Inhumansoflate1]

Taps the sign

[Jai Michelle Thunder 🌩️ @DreadedJai]

“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”

[D.O.C @DOC323123]

“I was hoping we could blame this on immigrants, or at least a minority. Turns out it was one of us unfortunately”

[joe🌻 @pestowhore]

this is the greatest food pic ever like

[Daramgar @Daramgaria]

chased down this lady to take a photo of her louis vuitton crawfish bag this is crazy

[Nals @mdj2313]

You don't unlock peak Twt humour unless you're chronically online.