Trouble in Bangkok as Filipino transgender group clashes with Thai peers


BANGKOK: Police officers from Lumphini station were called in on Monday (March 4) to break up the fight that broke out at a restaurant in Soi Sukhumvit 11 near Nana BTS station between about 20 Filipino transgender women and four Thai counterparts.

One of the Thais was injured in the fight, according to a friend of a victim, who added that the two factions had quarrelled in the past, although this was the first time it had led to physical violence.

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