I think I completely understand this situation and I do not live in Thailand.
The post is incorrect to begin with. I don’t know the source of the photo, but in Thailand, the service is based on a lottery for men. You may easily never roll it. There are many thai students (girls too) that do military training during their high school years on some days and don’t have to serve later. Also, this transitioning strategy will work in most countries in the world as most of them don’t allow transwomen.
*won’t work But yes, even in “developed” countries it’s a whole process and they might still force you to serve. (I wouldn’t have been able to doge it since I’m too old to transition or whatever, but depression saved me)
Mandatory military service is a slavery.
It has merits in some cases. (Eg living beside a hostile country like N Korea)
Only if there are ways out for the elite. Otherwise it’s essentially a defense co-op. If you believe your country is using the military in ethically wrong ways, that’s the actual problem, not the draft.
Is this because trans peeps are not allowed in the military or because women cannot enlist?
Women can enlist but not be chosen in the draft lottery.
Thailand recognizes trans women as men but can be excused for medical reasons if they have undergone gender reassignment surgery.
Previously the exemption was recognized as mental illness.
Sooo this is a good way to meet sexy singles in my area?
Enlisting in the military has always been an effective means of getting laid from what I hear
That makes zero sense. Trans women have no balls and lower testosterone than standard men, so they should have lower aggressiveness and calmer decision-making. Also, no women problems and as they can’t get pregnant there is no reason to not use them as soldiers in a war (that’s why women aren’t drafted; they can have babies). But they still have an otherwise male body with a usually heavier frame and stronger muscles.
They have to be the perfect frontline drone operators and snipers.This comment is so disgusting that i guess i will just go to sleep atp
… So Thailand actually has significantly better trans rights than the US does.
Because currently, in the US, trans people do not legally exist.
It’s complicated. Thailand has a continuous culture of recognizing gender non conformance (in part due to having never been colonized).
It’s not amazing, and a lot of transfeminized people in Thailand are pushed into sex work, as well as facing some social stigmas. But from everything I’ve heard it’s a lot better than a lot of the world
Iran has better trans rights than the US does…
You serious?
I mean it’s a bit more complex obviously, e. g. it’s highly medicalized, you need a “gender identity disorder” diagnosis to legally transition and GAS in order to change your legal gender, but on the other hand HRT and GAS are state subsidized.
see here for more https://outrightinternational.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/OutRightTransReport.pdf
Your source is a decade old. The situation has deteriorated in practice after the 2022 protests, with the regime seeing trans people as connecting with the broader Western lgbtq+ movement and so “importing harmful ideas”. Source from last year: https://uprdoc.ohchr.org/uprweb/downloadfile.aspx?filename=13540&file=EnglishTranslation
In general, it’s not that Iran recognizes “trans people”. There is no (officially allowed) trans identity. Medical and surgical transition is allowed as a way to “smooth a flaw” and assimilate into cishet-normative society. It is often applied as a way of state-sponsored conversion therapy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/middleeast/iran-transgender-surgery.html
I’m sorry what exactly has changed since then, on a systemic level?
Yeah the US trying to pinkwash their war efforts has certainly made the situation for LGBTQ people more difficult, but that’s not a phenomenon unique to Iran. It’s the same in Russia, large parts of Africa, West asia and I think latin america as well. If the nation hostile to you (like e.g. bombing schools while they’re in session) is also loudly proclaiming they want more gay rights, the knee-jerk reaction is that this must be a hostile act aimed at dismantling your society as well. That’s one of the ways how capitalists divide society into different identities and pit them against eachother.
They are recognized by DoD policy and can opt out, but they also cannot opt in.
They effectively cannot vote in half the the county.
It took me 15 seconds to read that explanation and I understand it fully without ever even going there. Terrible answer to the posted question.
I think the assumption is that there is an unspoken “unless it was explained to them”
otherwise that would be the case for like pretty much all answers
I think this is privilege and unacceptable.
The draft is what’s unacceptable.
The problem is the forced labor not trans people having something vaguely good happening to them for once
Oh are you joining the Thai military?
ManyAll of them are gorgeousWell fuck, now I know where to go in thailand. Now, just to find when to go.
Now, just to find when to go.
When’s the next draft?
The US excludes us too, but it just feels… different.
In Greece they check that you have 2 balls. You can’t serve if you have one only.
Wouldn’t want Hitler serving in the Greek army!
3 or more is fine tho?
Here in brazil they do the same thing
Why do you need the second ball to hold a gun?
Bollocks!
Crawley?
That’s nuts…
nah, nuts implies two (or more!)
What if you have more? You’ve got three balls so we’re promoting you to a higher pay grade.
That’s the benefit of having a uranium buttplug. I grow one extra ball each year. Also it keeps me warm during the winter
Those drafted can also pay to not go to the military. My girlfriend’s brother who is now living abroad paid i think ~200€ to not have to go there
Sounds cheap enough for not having to serve for two years
Yea here it is cheap but back there that is almost an entire month’s salary
Understandable. Still a good deal, though.
In my country, there is no official paid leave from draft, but using legal loopholes to avoid it will cost you many, many salaries over.
If this was the only way to avoid the draft, I would become Stan’s sooooo fast.
Is that the only thing stopping you now?
Stan’s what?
Stan’s tuck
