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The Third Pathway
ทางสายที่สาม
Thāng sāi thī sām
The Third Way
Thang-Sai-Thee-Sam
The first well-known Thai novel on Kathoey’s lives, Thang-Sai-Thee-Sam (The Third Pathway) was serialized in Sakul Thai magazine between 1980 and 1981 and later published as a book in 1982. It is written by Kiratree Chanar, a Thai transsexual female novelist who flew to America in 1975 to become the first Thai Kathoey to undergo sexual reassignment surgery with Dr. Stanley Biber. Thang-Sai-thee-Sam is both a fictional romance as well as a semi-autobiographical novel, in inspired by the author’s own feeling and sex-change experience. The narrative served to broaden understanding of Kathoey individuals by people in society at the time in addition to providing a history of sexual reassignment surgery based on the writer’s experience. – Description by Chanathip Suwannanon.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- 0g354f67q
- Collection
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Rare Books
- Institution
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Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
- Creator(s)
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Chanā, Kīratī
Chanar, Kiratree
- Date Created
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2002
- Genre
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Books
Fiction
- Places
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Thailand
- Topic(s)
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Asian LGBTQ+ people
Asian transgender people
Gender-affirming surgery
Katoey
LGBTQ+ romance fiction
Thai literature
Transgender authors
Transgender romance fiction
- Resource Type
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Text
- Language
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Thai
- Rights
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In copyright
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