Philippines Cross-Dressing Capital

Must admit, not really my idea of a great thing to do personally, but it does look fun for those involved.

Not my cup of tea but I suppose 'each to his own'

Ironically there are tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Filipino cross dressers who face crushing discrimination on a daily basis.

Ironically there are tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Filipino cross dressers who face crushing discrimination on a daily basis.
-@sekmet

On a personal note, and from all personal experience, I really don't give a flying rat's arse what anyone does as long as they don't hurt anyone else.

If they act as they do in Indonesia, they attract discrimination, even hate, because they tend to be pushy when begging and even known to mildly sexually assault people if they think they can get away with it.

Most of those who cross dress in public tend not to be doing it for the laugh, more for whatever reasons they might have, They commonly carry little amplifiers and dance (sort of) in front of shops expecting a payday. If you refuse to give money, many get threatening.

If in larger numbers, as i had the misfortune to encounter in a train station, they tend to get sexually aggressive, trying to force themselves on people.

They rarely get beaten up for being cross dressers, but they do kop for it when they go too far.

My only personal experience of a mild assault was a ladyboy in Thailand. I was close to my hotel late on night when he passed on a scooter. The ladyboy turned around and tried for business. A refusal saw him grab my arm and try to force me to accept. I broke free easily and waited for the second attempt that would have seen him find out what a broken arm feels like. The encounter ended when I explained how the hotel guard carried a big stick and I would ask him to use it if he followed me into the hotel grounds.

I don't give a fig when the extreme left say, sexual predators are evil little gits who deserve a damned good smacking.

Aggressive behaviour, sexual harassment and/or assault, regardless of the who and whom, remains nasty.  There's a difference between discrimination and not accepting bad behaviour.

If your 'in public' cross dressers act as to ones in Indonesia do, it isn't discrimination. If they don't, it is.

@sekmet Transvestites here are very common and I never saw evidence of "crushing" discrimination anywhere. As a guest in this country  I will not comment on cultural norms except to express my admiration that they do not attempt to groom innocent children into their lifestyle, as seen in some other countries (and for which efforts are being taken to stop).

@danfinn

That's a strawman whipped up by conservatives. If you want to do a whataboutism, I would say taking kids to church when they can't fully conceptualize God is akin to brainwashing.

@Fred so, your whole narrative is based on countries other than the Philippines? Isn't this a Philippines forum?

sekmet said. . . . If you want to do a whataboutism, I would say taking kids to church when they can't fully conceptualize God is akin to brainwashing

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Some posts get me thinking off topic. Recently I watched several Youtube interviews with Cosmologist Neil Tyson heir to the thrown of the late great Carl Sagan and Tyson's response to religious Deities.

The fervent belief of deities is probably solely responsible for millions of deaths. So I was thinking why did these Deities show up when they did and the reason for their geographical location.

Another thought is crediting the formation of the Universe as the Big Bang. Neil Tyson said all matter was located in the area the size of a pin head and exploded outwards and is continuously expanding some 16 billion years later.

These subjects are far more interesting to me on than cross dressing.

@danfinn
That's a strawman whipped up by conservatives. If you want to do a whataboutism, I would say taking kids to church when they can't fully conceptualize God is akin to brainwashing.
-@sekmet

The term "strawman" applies to a debate or argument and so does "whataboutism". Since I am not engaged in debate, my only response is, to those who wish to defend these fetishes, I have no problem at all except keep the kids out of it including those whose parents believe in God. Also, this is not an issue in the Philippines.