Sexual Stigma Among Transgender Students in Thai Textbooks

Abstract

This article is part of a dissertation study of the sexual stigma that occurs with transgender students in Chiang Mai, it is a qualitative study. The purpose of the research is to study the gender stigma situation of transgender students in schools and to understand the nature of sexual stigma in schools, as well as to know the challenges and consequences of transgender students, faced with being stigmatized. The samples used in the study were transgender students, currently studying in senior high school grade 10-12, semesters 1-2 of the academic year 2018, a school in Chiang Mai, consisting of 15 people, divided into 3 groups of transgendered students each year to study according to research objectives and 2 male/female students of each year to study the attitude towards transgender students. Researchers use observations and interviews as the main way to collect data, to analyze the data to manage all of the information acquired above from the documents, interviews, and observation. The researchers opted for an Excel ready-made program because it has the features to help manage and integrate different types of data. The researcher's retrieved data from documents removed interview tapes and compiled data from observations. All data is published in the program so that the information is organized into a collective mindset and identified by the distinguished category. The findings are made in this article, it is a reflection of gender bias towards transgender people, which is a lesson used in some teaching subjects to continue to present sexually harassing and harassing content of transgender students. This is a new kind of social problem that Thailand has never said before. The content shown in such classes is considered to be a significant bias for transgender students.