At the heart of this 58 minute documentary film is the extraordinary Miss Tiffany Universe Beauty Pageant. The biggest hermaphrodite happening in the world. All photos are stills from the actual film.
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Ten million viewers tune in live to watch the winner take the crown. We follow three of the contestants as they battle it out to become the most beautiful boy-girl in Thailand.
The Contestants
Rose, contestant number 10, is a home town girl and works in a small shoe shop. She is a devout Buddhist and entering the pageant for the second time.
Number 60 is called White and she's a superstar at Ratchada cabaret in Bangkok. She came 2nd in a prior Miss Tiffany contest and is one of the most beautiful hermaphrodites in Thailand. She hopes to take the title this year.
Tanya, Number 39, is studying for her masters degree in Sydney Australia. She is a bright girl but her Father is a high ranking officer in the Royal Thai army. He can't accept her change into womanhood.
Sai won the Miss Tiffany Universe contest last year
THE STORY
This 58 minute documentary follows the biggest hermaphrodite happening in the world, Thailand's Miss Tiffany Beauty Pageant.
Rose, White and Tanya battle it out to become Thailand's most beautiful boy-girl in front of ten million television viewers. Taking the crown, Tanya returns to Sydney Australia, where she is forging a new life away from her strict father who is a major in the Royal Thai Army.
Tanya then travels to Los Angeles USA where she wins the Miss Universe Hermaphrodite Pageant to become the most beautiful Hermaphrodite in the world.
Inter-cut within the film is Dr Preecha, the worlds greatest sexual reassignment surgeon performing colon transposition for vagina, and the illuminating exploration of what Buddhism refers to as Yab Yum or 'both both,' the Buddhist belief that the supreme entity is non-dualistic, thus forging the androgynous psychology of Thailand's contemporary Buddhist society.
With unprecedented access to the unseen before three top Thai cabarets shows the film also uncovers the extraordinary hermaphrodite cabaret world where identical twin boys Hong and Yu have followed each other into the hermaphrodite sex and we meet more identical twin hermaphrodites Jep and Jane who speak about the fluid psychology Buddhism has forged in Thailand, the land of the free.
A film exploring the fixed ideas of monotheism, non duality and the flux which interconnects us to the great mystery. Copies of the film can be ordered for £14.99 ($25) plus postage here