Kathoey or katoey (Thai: กะเทย; RTGS: Kathoei;[kàtʰɤːj]) is a Thai term that refers to a transgender person or an effeminate gay male in Thailand. While a significant number of Thais perceive kathoeys as belonging to a third gender, including many kathoeys themselves, others see them as either a kind of man or a kind of woman. Related phrases include sao (or phuying) praphet song (Thai: สาวประเภทสอง,"a second kind of woman"), or phet thi sam (Thai: เพศที่สาม, "third gender"). The word kathoey is thought to be of Khmer origin. It is most often rendered as ladyboy in English conversation with Thais and this latter expression has become popular across South East Asia.
The term "kathoey" is not an equivalent of the modern Western transsexual woman. Use of the term "kathoey" suggests that the person self-identifies as a type of male, in contrast to sao praphet song (which like "trans woman" suggests a "female" gender identity) or phet thi sam (which suggests a third gender). The term phu-ying praphet thi sorng, which can be translated as "woman of the second kind", is also used to refer to kathoey. Australian scholar of sexual politics in Thailand Peter Jackson claims that the term "kathoey" was used in premodern times to refer to intersexuals, and that the usage changed in the middle of the twentieth century to cover cross-dressing males. The term can refer to males who exhibit varying degrees of femininity – many kathoeys dress as women and undergo "feminising" medical procedures such as breast implants, hormones, silicone injections, or Adam's apple reductions. Others may wear makeup and use feminine pronouns, but dress as men, and are closer to the Western category of effeminate gay man than transgender.
Will you try to justify the meaning, of the note you sent
this evening, to my door your not deceiving me
I'd of thought that you'd have known me better, sending
round an unsigned letter, facing you would be much better
now.
Is it just that you can't face the future with me, can't
you tell me to my face
You just took the cowards way to say good-bye, how would
you feel here in my place?
If at last I think I'm glad, to rid myself of you I'm
sad, to think about the time I let you go
Then I turn and walk away, so please don't beg for me to
stay, cause I know just what I
will say to you
Is it just that you can't face the future with me, can't
you tell me to my face
You just took the cowards way to say good-bye, how would
you feel here in my place?
Tell me to my face your leaving now
Open up your heart, my pretty little shy one
Taste the tender sweetness that a loving kiss can bring
to you
Open up your heart my pretty little shy one
Let me show you all the livin' you been missin'
All there is to do.
I know that you are afraid of the world
Afraid of the things you see
In my arms your gonna be strong
As strong as love can make you be, so
Open up your heart my pretty little shy one
Just do like I say and let me love you all the way
Flat a mile on the stairs to his worth
A proud father leading the search
One mistake and a slip of the tongue and it
Slipped to the question
Face it out
Face it out
Come right through assault gun
But you better be right you better be right
This time I was hoping that you better be right
Back there where you live in a dream, your mindset becomes you
Fake fables are not all that they seem, mistrust within you
Can’t say you believe in all that
After the things that you saw in the past
No bolt will be colder the shoulder
I’m here don’t box me in
Face it out
Face it out
Come right through assault gun
But you better be right you better be right
This time I was hoping that you better be right
Come right through assault gun
But you better be right you better be right
This time I was hoping that you better be right
This is a declaration
Put my head in the sand
I feel it fill me in
Oh oh oh
I feel it fill me inn
Come right through assault gun
But you better be right you better be right
This time I was hoping that you better be right
Come right through assault gun
But you better be right you better be right
Ain't gonna lie
That's one thing
You and I could never see
So as we kiss goodbye
If I cry don't let these
Tears I shed today
Hold you back in any way
He's waiting for your smile so hurry
I'll be fine now don't you worry
Ain't gonna lie
If you say he's the guy
I won't stand in your way
Though it hurts me today
I'll get by
And I ain't gonna lie
Ain't gonna lie
Baby don't cry
Though my heart is breaking
I'm glad that you
Told the truth
Instead of some
Pack of lies
To us a lie's the only sin
At least we'll end the way we've been
By being truthful to each other
Girl I hope I find another
Ain't gonna lie
I'll be out by and by
Maybe I'll never meet
Anyone half as sweet
But I'll try
And I ain't gonna lie
To us a lie is the only sin
At least we'll end the way we've been
By being truthful to each other
Girl I hope I find another
Ain't gonna lie
Maybe I'll never meet
Anyone half as sweet
But I'll try
And I ain't gonna lie
I ain't gonna lie
Good mornin' sun I say it's good to see you shinin'
I know my baby brought you to me
She kissed me yesterday hello your silver linin'
Got spring and summer runnin' through me
Hey 98.6 it's good to have you back again, oh
Hey 98.6 her lovin' is the medicine that saved me
Oh I love my baby
Hey everybody on the street I see you smilin'
Must be because I found my baby
You know she's got me on another kind of highway
I want to go to where it takes me
Hey 98.6 it's good to have you back again, oh
Hey 98.6 her lovin' is the medicine that saved me
Oh I love my baby
You know she's got me on another kind of highway
I want to go to where it takes me
Hey 98.6 it's good to have you back again, oh
Hey 98.6 her lovin' is the medicine that saved me