First, the income is quite rich. At present, Thailand is still in the primary stage of economic development, and there are few jobs that ordinary people can engage in, and because there are few jobs that men engage in sex work, many men try to turn themselves into "women" in order to get high income. In Thailand, almost only children from poor families are transvestites. When the girls grow up, the handsome guys will have hormones, injections, and some will have surgery. From the outside, they are all women. Only a few people become transvestites because they are poor. Nowadays, many people choose their gender, not because they are poor.
Second, the market demand. Thailand's tourism industry is developed, and shemale performance is a major feature of tourism. Therefore, the government and the market also support the shemale economy, and Thailand has formed a complete industrial chain, such as "producing shemale", "training shemale", performances and beauty contests. It is precisely because people's discrimination against shemale is not serious that there are so many shemale in Thailand. It is also inevitable that transvestites who choose this road are doomed to bear more pressure and difficulties.
At present, there is not an accurate number of shemale in Thailand, but according to the current population of 64 million in Thailand, the number of shemale in the 20-40 age group should be around 400,000.