泰新徵兵法把男人分三類

Thailand's defense ministry has coined new terms to describe transgender men normally exempt from Army conscription to avoid causing them offence.

The law has stated transgender people are exempt from signing up to the military because of a "psychological abnormality", but after being amended, men will be divided into three types - "Type 1" will refer to men "whose appearances are typical of men", "Type 2" will refer to men who have undergone breast implants and "Type 3" will describe those who have had a full sex change, the Bangkok Post newspaper said.

"Normally only Type 1 are required to draw a conscription ballot," Thaksin Chiamthong, an officer of the Army Reserve Command, told the paper. "But if the number of Type 1 is insufficient, Type 2 will be conscripted as well, despite their female-like breasts."

The army reportedly proposed replacing the current classification in the Conscription Act of 1954 with "gender identity disorder", but faced ire from rights groups. Thailand's annual conscription begins in April and the Thai armed forces need to conscript 97,280 men aged 21 this year - up by 9,828 from 2010.

據法新社20日報道，泰國國防部正在徵兵法中增添條例，對曾經爲避免受到攻擊而不予招募入伍的變性男子重新作出定義。

法新社援引泰國《曼谷郵報》的消息稱，原先的法規規定，由於心理異常，變性人不準入伍。而修改後的法規將把男人分爲三類：“一類男人”指那些“從外表上看有典型男人特徵的”；“二類男人”指那些進行過乳房植入手術的；“三類男人”則指那些接受過完全變性手術的。

“正常情況下，只有一類男人才需要服兵役，” 泰國陸軍後備司令部官員塔新•奇亞姆鬆說道。“但如果一類男人的數量不夠，儘管二類男人有女人一樣的乳房，也需要應徵。”

報道稱，泰國軍方曾建議修改1954年出臺的、將“性別認定障礙者”排除出兵營的徵兵法，但激起了右翼組織的反對。泰國每年一度的新兵招募工作於4月開始，今年計劃徵召97280名21歲男兵，比去年增加9828名。