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Transsexual Miss World contest aims to boost awareness

The contest, held in Thailand, is taken just as seriously as more traditional pageants in a nation that is famed for its sexual tolerance

By Danny Kemp  /  AFP , PATTAYA, THAILAND

Thai contestant Sorawee Nattee, who won the domestic version of the pageant in May, said that she had been drafted for military service despite having had a sex-change.

“But when I went to the drafting center looking like this, like a girl, with boobs, they told me to go away,” the 21-year-old said.

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