My awareness at the time was from family members occasionally mentioning them, that they saw some on the street or something. At the time I vaguely “knew” of trans women through a Thai term that I find derogatory and do not want to mention here. People have mentioned to me before that since Thailand was internationally infamous for having a lot of trans women, they thought it was an open and accepting place, but that is entirely wrong in my opinion. I told myself not to get my hopes up and to try to forget about it.įor some context, this was in Thailand right around the turn of the millennium. Back then, I thought that I might never be able to get a copy of Pokémon Crystal and was disappointed. I was a huge Pokémon fan, and I already heard of many amazing Pokémon things that were only available in other countries, like the Ancient Mew trading card that people only got by watching the Pokémon movie, The Power of One, in theaters.
The wave immediately crashed down into sadness. A tidal wave so powerful that even though most of my memories of the past were suppressed (sometimes intentionally), that one brief moment stuck out to me my entire life. At the time I didn’t know why, but I was excited and swept with emotion. But despite lacking the awareness, reading the article about Pokémon Crystal gave me a huge sense of elation that I couldn’t understand. I didn’t really have any self-awareness as a girl at the time.
And as far as anyone was concerned, I was a boy. Those mundane words opened up a new world for me.
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