Situation Sexual Stigma Among Transgender Students in Chiangmai

Abstract

          This article is part of the research titled “Sexual Stigma among Transgender Students in Chiangmai” to study of the situation of sexual stigma and understanding of the nature of sexual stigma, as well as the challenges and consequences that transgender students face stigmatize. The findings are that areas and relationships contribute to the stigma of transgender students who provide important information. It found that stigma is in the form of bullying. Which bullying is most common number one is verbal bullying, second is physical bullying and last one is sexual bullying. By the most bullied areas the first is the dorm, second is the toilet/bathroom and finally it’s a classroom. In the part of transgender students who have to challenge with what is faced and affected by the stigma, one of the most such is transgender students who define themselves that “tomboy” the second sequence is transgender students who define themselves “kathoey” and the final is transgender students who define themselves “gay”. By the nature of the stigma, the challenge transgender students will face and the consequences of the stigma that transgender students will face. The researchers introduced a conceptual framework explaining the gender regimes of Walby (1990), at the highest level is the social system, and together with the concept of stigma and the findings that have created a system of gender inequality, which the theory of gender is focused on gender differences, the condition created through the creation of sexual boundaries, daily life through experience and interaction.