How do you do it?

[hardpaolo]

Sure there are many other options but try and fit into one of these if you can.

[Looker]

I voted for option 2 but in fact in same cases I have acted as option 1
Any option 1.5 ?

[Guest]

same same as looker

[daveduke007]

Option 1

[rxpharm]

Option 1, but then there are no lbs where I am right now.

[katoeylover]

option 2 - in Los anywhere, at home nowhere!! (for now!!)

[Foggy]

Option 2...Quite happily walked around Sao Paulo with Hilda.... No one bothered us and I wouldnt care any way

[Road Runner]

Option 1 - not much point voting anything else in my case.

Herself does trips to the UK and has met most of my family.
Similarly I have met the 50% of Issan that she is allegedly related too

RR.

[gizmo]

(rxpharm @ Jun. 15 2007,08:07) Option 1, but then there are no lbs where I am right now.

I voted the same, and have the same problem!!

[stogie bear]

Similarly I have met the 50% of Issan that she is allegedly related too...

[Guest]

Here's a question from me.

I don't think I would have a problem with the walking around, except for one thing. I've gotten the impression that people might look at you funny or enviously, but would anyone actually give you shit or start a fight or something like that?

And two: would anyone flip out if you were holding hands? If I'm walking around with a girl, I generally like to hold hands with her. (Of course I've never done that with a girl whose hands were as big as mine)

If I could bee-bop all over the place holding hands with a girl, without anyone yelling at me or hitting me in the head with a frying pan, I think I'd be OK.

[rxpharm]

Grunyen this has been discussed in the past as well, but not as any one particular topic, usually comes up in trip reports or in this forum.

In Thailand, it doesn't really matter, people won't bother you or comment if you are out and about with your lb date. Holding hands is fairly common now, but of course public displays of affection (French kissing) her in public may lead to some stares and possible comments.

The times that may present a challenge are if you take her to a restaurant and she may not be appropriately dressed - that may draw unwanted attention, or if you are thinking of taking her to a business function as a date - that would probably not go over well either.

However, in most normal day to day situations there should not be any problems.

[blairforce1]

You can and do get adverse comments from Thai's. Good Thai Girls will not be seen walking hand in hand with you that is of BG's.

[Road Runner]

Only time I had problems with a trouble maker was with some macho-man w#*@ker in a large pub in London.
I bet if he knew she was 'really a man' he would not have been so keen  


On the holding hands bit  -  not all the girls do have large hands and/or feet.  Herself's are only just average size for a western woman.
There was one post-op ladyboy that used to free-lance around Asok who was tiny (about 5ft tall) and had equally petite hands and feet.
I did not believe for a long time she was not a gg.


In Thailand it's not considered proper for the opposite sex to touch each other in public.  OK in Bangkok yes it's just about acceptable to hold hands.
But more overt forms of touching are thought of (especially by older Thais) as something close to having sex in public  

When we go to Herself's home town I always respect the local custom and so the only time we touch at all is when we are alone or with her close family.


RR.

[Guest]

RR, I know "back in the village" it is probably a mixed feeling about acceptance of what has become of mom and dad's son/daughter. And I'm sure some are much more accepting and some are less so.

When you actually show up back home with a guy though, that really makes mom and dad realize the situation at hand. How does your ladies family feel to have a (presumably) white foreigner coming home with their transitioned daughter?

I have to assume they can at least be polite since you make it sound like you do this regularly, and maybe they are completely OK with it. I would imagine that would be like the final straw that really freaks a lot of parents out. I feel fairly safe in saying most people are a little xenophobic. I imagine like a white boy in the South (of the US, like Dukes of Hazzard country) telling his parents he's gay, then telling them he wants to become a woman, then bringing home a big black man visiting from Africa.

That's got to be a bit of a shock. Of course Southerner's in the US aren't usually buddhist and haven't had a long time where a significant portion of the population crosses gender publicly.

I'd be curious to know your experiences and thoughts on this.