Thailand’s new constitution may protect transgender people from discrimination—but not in the way that you think. Thailand made headlines last week for proposing that its new constitution should prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. That would put the Southeast Asian nation ahead of 32 U.S. states and all but a few countries. Coincidentally, the announcement came in striking contrast to a pathetic attempt by one lawmaker in Kentucky to require trans people to use the bathrooms associated with their given sex. Thailand 1, Kentucky 0. What does this mean? And why Thailand? The answers to these questions are easily misunderstood, because sexual...
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