Photographer, Bookseller, Naturalist

Lady Boys of the Philippines

What are Lady Boys? I am just in the early stages of learning. Basically they are males who choose to dress up in women’s attire. But the variations and degree are aping conventional female appearance seem to be considerable. This gallery more or less consists of portrait photos. Also one billboard ad featuring a lady boy consumer. I suspect other Southeast Asian countries also have sizeable gender bending populations but I sense that the phenomena is more developed, widespread and accepted in the Philippines than in other countries. Whether the Muslim population here also includes lady boys is something hope to learn, but it would appear that the vast majority I have thus encountered come from Catholic backgrounds.

They use gay social websites to meet sex partners but I suspect what they are looking for are mostly males identifying as bi-sexual. Several have shown considerable interest in me, probably because I am Caucasian. One quiet interesting aspect of the phenomena is that they do not seem very interested in becoming transsexuals. And a few I have chatted with seem comfortable with, even proud of the cocks.