Toms and Dees: Transgender identity and female same-sex relationships in Thailand Taiwan may have seen in 1297

may have seen in 1297

GRANT EVANS was a professor of anthropology at the University of Hong Kong for many years and is co-editor of Hong Kong: The Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis (1997) and Where China Meets Southeast Asia (1999)

Volker Grabowsky is professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Münster

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Toms and Dees: Transgender identity and female same-sex relationships in Thailand Taiwan may have seen in 1297A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A tom (from tom boy) refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner, or dee (from lady). The patterning of female same sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs, coupled with the use of English derived terms to refer to them, is found throughout East and Southeast Asia. Have the forces of capitalism