Beautiful Faces

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Originally Posted by jolo

Thank you SMC, she is just stunning.

I would like to ask a "technical" question about the term Ladyboy.
Is the term "Ladyboy" meant to be exclusive Asian, TS beauties ??

Jon

I realize that the title of the thread uses ?ladyboy,? and so perhaps you are asking because my post is not of a Thai. The term ?ladyboy,? as I understand it, is the usual translation of the Thai word ?kathoey? or ?katoey,? which as I understand it is used in Thailand and in some other Southeast Asian countries to indicate a transwoman, but also a cross-dressing male or even a very effinate gay man. In Thailand, it is sometimes also used to refer to a so-called ?Third Sex.?

Such labels are difficult to work with and quite fluid (thus supporting my general argument, posted often on this forum, that labels should be rejected). For instance, the ?femboy? thread, in which I post regularly, frequently provokes questions about terminology. To one person, a particular picture may be of a femboy, but to the person in the picture, that label may be rejected. My preference, to the degree possible, is to refer to people as they themselves wish to be referred.

However, as the thread had other posts of non-Thais, I felt it was okay to post the pictures that I did.