Author: Yang Turbin. Thai ladyboys are a mysterious group; they are stunningly beautiful, can sing and dance gracefully. However, who can truly understand the bitterness and sorrow of those who become ladyboys? Are they men or women? How do they transform into ladyboys? The monstrous bodies lead to distorted inner worlds. Journalists who get close to them discover the tears hidden in their hearts...
Thailand is a small country with only 60 million people, yet every year, 7 million tourists from abroad visit for sightseeing, generating annual revenues of up to 7 billion US dollars, which has become a pillar of Thailand's economy. Thailand's tourism industry is extremely distinctive, and among its features, the most astonishing is the famous "ladyboy" performances. The emergence of ladyboys is due to the rampant sex tourism industry in Thailand, where women can earn a lot of money in this field. Therefore, some men, for survival, try every means to turn themselves into "women"; and some human traffickers also strive to abduct and create ladyboys for big profits. Thus, this special group of "ladyboys" gradually formed. By the 1990s, there were already 20,000 ladyboys in Thailand, aged between 14-50 years old, mainly concentrated in the ladyboy song and dance troupes in Pattaya, as well as bars and nightclubs.
All tourists who visit Thailand see these ladyboys, whose faces are stunningly beautiful, looking like celestial beings, full of charm, but few understand the hardships and sourness behind their forced smiles.
Recently, journalists managed to approach this deformed group and understood their distorted inner worlds...