Kanphitcha Sungsuk, 21, uses her mobile phone with her friends after an army draft at her home near Klong Toey, the dockside slum area in Bangkok, Thailand, April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A group of young transgender Thais sits together in women's clothes behind rows of men, waiting for military officers to call their names and decide whether they must be drafted as soldiers.
"I was born male, so I must be here, as duty calls," said Kanphitcha Sungsuk, 21, in a cream-coloured dress, holding up a mirror to check her make-up and long black hair.
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