Despite how eloquently albaby argues for the poor downtrodden trans community, biological women have rights too that should be acknowledged, respected and protected.

Absolutely! That is the point albaby does not understand.

This problem doesn't seem to occur often enough to be discussed in expat groups in the Philippines and Thailand. I did start spending more time on the history boards because that piqued my interest, but I still frequented the boards and I think they discussed everything ad nauseum. Suffice it to say Ladyboys or bayot are numerous in the Philippines and Western males run into them quite a lot. 95% of the ladyboys you could tell by observation, but there were some who got the gender hormone therapy early and the results were sometimes spectacular and you couldn't tell. I discovered all expats and filipinos think they can tell 100% of the time who's a ladyboy because of the large number of bayots who never got hormone treatment or started late. You can't convince them otherwise.

I think the problems being discussed are imaginary, but I think it will be like trying to convince expats there are some Ladyboys where you can't tell by observation. BHM, Lurker Mom, fly over to Thailand and report back. ;)