27 Mar 2019

Thailand elects its first transgender member of parliament

Filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit was elected to Thailand’s House of Representatives.

Thailand’s elections on Sunday (24 March) were the first general elections since a military coup in 2014 and filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit won a seat for the Future Forward Party (FFP). After half a decade of military junta rule, up to 52 million Thais went to the polls this past weekend.

Most political parties included LGBT policies, such as same-sex partnerships, in their manifestos.

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