Let me strip away the Borgspeak and translate this into language everyone can understand: "In many cultures in the world, including mine, a homosexual male is so offensive to society's sensibilities that our cultures have developed a *pretty homophobic* workaround for us, giving us culture-specific descriptors that all roughly translate as something like "man-as-woman" or "womanly man". You may have heard this referred to as "third gender". Working on society-wide acceptance of homosexuality would never fly in our cultures. So we fight to maintain this ancient workaround system. We are still rejected by society, but not as much as if we were just going around as gay men. And here's why international governments and philanthropists care about us: we are extremely susceptible to HIV infection, because we almost invariably work as prostitutes, and our customers are invariably straight married men who fetishise us, so our sexual networks spread to the general population. Therefore, in order to reach us as an epidemiological population for international AIDS funding, we have collectively adopted the foreign label "transgender" because it helps us organise ourselves internationally and, importantly, this universalising label makes it easier for us to receive international support. When we say that the "sex binary is a colonial import", what we actually mean is that when colonisers arrived on our shores, they outlawed sodomy (NDLR: Thailand was never colonised). This meant that our third-gender identities were outlawed by foreign invaders, because at the end of the day, all we really are is gay men. So now we are adopting trendy "decolonial" messaging because it will help us get support from Western white-paper writers and academics, who will use this fashionable decolonial *lens* to help us reinforce this ancient homophobia. Then we can present our cultural identities as exotic, gender-bending and above all, decolonised -- and we all know that Western lefties love that shit. We all secretly know that foreign support is largely predicated on us all practicing safer sex, so that international AIDS goals can be achieved, but we keep the "human rights" gloss because that's less messy and clinical and easier to sell to the normies. Ultimately, it's all a kind of neocolonialism, ironically. The genius ingredient: pairing HIV/AIDS treatment with "gender affirming care" brings all the boys to the clinic. So when I say that my friend, a "ladyboy", lost access to gender affirming care when Trump pulled the plug on USAID funding to my trans NGO, what I'm really saying is that my ladyboy friend, who, again, is just a gay lad with a pair of tits his customers like, has lost his access to HIV/AIDS care."