This document provides information about a developmental psychology mini project conducted by a group of students. It includes a synopsis of the film "Beautiful Boxer" which tells the true story of a Thai kickboxer who was born male but identified as female. The group watched the film and reviewed articles about sexual orientation. They studied topics like defining sexual orientation, discrimination based on sexual orientation, and examples of LGBT cases in the Malaysian context. The document also discusses symptoms of being gay, lesbian, or bisexual according to the Malaysian education ministry and provides definitions and context for bisexual and transgender individuals in Malaysia.

1. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
MINI PROJECT
TITLE:
Watch and review “Beautiful
Boxer”.Review and summarise
article/s on sexual orientation.
Study on LGBT in Malaysia context

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3. BEAUTIFUL BOXER

4. SYNOPSIS OF STORY
Inspired by a true story, this drama from Thailand tells the story of Nong
Toom (Asanee Suwan), who was born in a small community where his
family struggled with poverty, and Nong Toom himself was the target of
bullies who made fun of his delicate nature. From his early childhood, Nong
Toom felt more like a girl than a boy, and when he encounters a transsexual
for the first time, he comes to the realization that he also is a woman
trapped in a man's body. While Nong Toom is not by his nature
aggressive, one day he is forced to fight a bully to defend one of his
friends, and he discovers he has a natural talent for kickboxing. Nong Toom
begins training with a skilled kickboxing coach, Pi Chart (Sorapong
Chatri), but despite the best efforts of Nong Toom and his best friend Pi Bua
(Natcha Bootsri), the secret of his unorthodox sexuality leaks out. To his
surprise, Pi Chart accepts Nong Toom as he is, and boxing promoter Pi Mo
(Somsak Tuangmukda) embraces his lifestyle as a marketable gimmick, as
the fighter now battles his opponents while wearing makeup -- and wins
more often than not; however, Nong Toom begins to alienate his new
following when he declares that his embrace of women's clothing and
makeup is not a joke and that he's saving his prize money to one day have a
sex-change operation. While Beautiful Boxer was based on the life story of
Thai kickboxing champ Nong Toom Prinya Charoenphol, the fighter himself
did not actively participate in the making of the film.

5. CAST
Asanee Suwan as Nong Thoom
Sorapong Chatree as Pi Chart
Orn-Anong Panyawong as Nong Thoom's
mother
Nukkid Boonthong as Nong Thoom's father
Sitiporn Niyom as Nat
Kyoko Inoue as herself (female Japanese
wrestler)
Sarawuth Tangchit as Nong Toom (as a boy)
Keagan Kang as Jack the reporter

6. REAL “LADYBOY” IN THIS STORY IS :
Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer
who underwent a sex change operation to
become a woman.
As a child, she was already aware of her
female gender-identity. After a short period
as a Buddhist monk, she started to train as
a boxer, and eventually joined a boxing
camp in Chonburi. Her goal was to make
enough money to support her poor parents
and to pay for a sex-change operation.

7. SOME PICTURES OF REAL LADYBOY
(KATHOEY) IN BEAUTIFUL BOXER…

8. MORAL OF THE STORY :
 nature vs nurture
In this story what I can relate is the desire of Nong Thoom to
become a woman is very strong even he know that he will
faced many difficulties from other people because of his
decisions. He got his satisfaction by becoming a woman. Is it
nature or nurture??
 hardworking and responsible
 human have right to choose what better in their life.
 there are 100 ways solutions for 1 problem.
 don’t ever give up when have problem.

9. ARTICLES ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION

10. DEFINING SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
BY GAIL S. BERSTEIN, PH.D
 Sexual orientation - a classical example of a
way to categorized people that is both widely
misunderstood and controversial
Our culture is one that is both obsessed with
sex and phobic about it
 Scientist & scholars - there is no one
universally accepted definition
 Homosexual - an adult whose
fantasies, attachments and longings are
predominantly for persons of the same gender
 Heterosexual – are those for whom
fantasies, attachments and longings are
predominantly for persons of the opposite

11. Bisexual – are those with fantasies,
attachments and longings for
persons of both gender
This definitions distinguishes
between orientation and identity
Orientation – definitions applied to
others for scientific and scholarly
purposes
Identity – what we call ourselves,
to the identity we each have as a
gay, lesbian, bisexual, or
heterosexual person

12. SEXUAL ORIENTATION
DISCRIMINATION : YOUR RIGHTS
BY BARBARA KATE REPA (NOLO)
 Sexual orientation discrimination includes being
treated differently or harassed because of your
real or perceived sexual orientation
Federal Law
 There is no federal law that specifically
outlaws workplace discrimination on the basis
of sexual orientation in the private sector.
• Local Law
 Many cities & counties prohibit discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation in at least
some workplace
 Visit the Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund website at www.lambdalegal.org

13. Gender Identity May Also be Protected
State without specific statutes, courts have
sometimes interpreted other antidiscrimination
statutes, like those protecting individuals based on
their gender, to include gender identity
Company Policies
Prohibit such conduct & often provide disciplinary
guidelines for dealing managers who discriminate, up
to & including termination of employment
Other Laws
Harassment
Assault
Battery
Invasion of privacy
Defamation

14. LGBT
context in
Malaysia

15. GAY CASE IN MALAYSIA
Written by Sean Yoong date 8 Jun 2012
in the huffingtonspot.com
•The gay couples who are known as
Nyeo Boon Lin had married with Phineas
Newborn III.
•Nyeo Boon is a Malaysian born. He is a
Chinese man.
•Phineas Newborn III is
an African-American.
•In this case, Phineas Newborn III
had been a husband to Sean Yoong.
•They had made their wedding
in Malaysia, a year after their wedding in New York.
•In the reception was found that small, heart-shaped chocolates wrapped
Chinese-language notes that translated into “God loves gays”.

16. DURING THE WEDDING DAY OF
NYEO BOON LIN AND
PHINEAS NEWBORN III
They never shy to show that
they are a gay couples.

17. LESBIAN CASE IN MALAYSIA
Sources from Singapore’s zb Sunday newspaper on 31 July 2011 on
page 22 had write about:
 Lesbian wedding between Thomas, 29 and Apple, 27.
Before they make decision to get married,
they had dating together for two years.
Thomas is a woman. But she had
changed to be a man and be a husband
to Apple.
They had done the wedding reception at Batu Pahat, Johor.
Although they had married, but still the
marriage is not legally recognised as
Malaysia has no provision for same-sex
marriages.

18. THE WEDDING BETWEEN A MAT SALLEH MAN
WITH THE LAST MALAY MAN
(LELAKI MELAYU TERAKHIR)
• Ariff Alfian, a malay man is a medic student in Ireland.
• His studies was sponsored by Petronas scholarship.
• Firstly, Ariff Alfian was reported missing by his family
because there was eight years no news from him.
• But then his family was get the news that he was get
married with a Dublin man known as Jonathan.
•During his wedding, Ariff Alfian was wear a baju melayu
suit, complete with samping and tanjak.

19. THE WEDDING OF ARIFF ALFIAN WITH
JONATHAN

20. THE SYMPTOMS
The gay symptoms The lesbian symptoms
 Have a muscular body and  Attracted to women.
like to show their body by  Besides their female
wearing v-neck and companions, they will
sleeveless clothes. distance themselves from
 Prefer tight and light- other women.
coloured clothes.  Like to hang out, have
 Attracted to men. meals and sleeps in the
 Like to bring big handbags company of women.
similar to those used by  Have no affection for
woman when hanging out. men.
Sources from Malaysiakini that had been write on Thurday, 13 Sep 2012
and the symptoms had been told by the Education Ministry

21. BISEXUAL
 DEFINITION
• men and women who achieve sexual or erotic
attraction to members of both sexes
• According to Oxford Dictionary(2001), bisexual is
sexually attracted to both men and women.
• In psychology,it is referred as the state of being
emotionally or sexually attracted to persons of either
sex.
 Usually, but not always, the bisexual person engages in
sexual activity with partners of both sexes.

22. BISEXUAL IN MALAYSIA CONTEX
• In Malaysia, bisexual is one of top issue and have been
practice by most teenagers.
• However, it is reported less as most of subjects were
less prepared to report their current feelings than
similar feelings during puberty.
• Bisexual rights is largely unrecognized in Malaysia, same
with Lesbian, Gay and Transgender.
• As Islam is Malaysia official religion, social attitudes
towards the LGBT community are also shaped by Islam
• As Malaysia continues to develop, support for LGBT
increases, even there is NGO for LGBT which is
Seksualiti Merdeka or Independent Sexuality

23. TRANSGENDER
 DEFINITION
• A general term applied to a variety of individuals,
behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from
culturally conventional gender roles
• the state of one's gender identity (self-identification as
woman, man, neither or both) not matching one's
assigned sex (identification by others as male, female
or intersex based on physical/genetic sex).
 It is normally related with cross-dressing.

24. TRANSGENDER IN MALAYSIA CONTEXT
• Malaysia have long had traditions for the open
expression of transgenderism and transsexualism.
These are institutionalized in various ways (such as the
Hijra in India) in the these cultures.
• Various forms of open social transition have long
existed, even though they conflict with the religious
beliefs and in almost cases relegate the transitioners to
incredibly low social status.
• Recently the plights of the large numbers of
transgender and transsexual women in Malaysia have
come to the attention of an increasingly open-minded
and pragmatic government.


25. • A survey was taken in order to estimate their numbers.
The survey estimated that there are 50,000
"transsexuals" who are living as women in the country -
a country having a population of about 8 million males
over the age of 13. This number includes those who
have socially transitioned (TG transition) and in smaller
numbers of those who have undergone SRS (TS
transition).
• However, the number of transgender in Malaysia
undoubtedly smaller than in the West.
• Mak Nyah, Pondan and Bapok is the nickname for
transgender
• They are labelled as “third sex” and still fighting for the
rights to be called as women.

26. • Most of them involve in entertainment, make-up artist
and even as sex workers.
• Example of transgender: Fatine Young

27.  Fatine Young is also known as Fatine Marissa. She was a
make-up artist. Born Mohammed Fazdil Bin Min Bahari,
she was married to Ian Young in June 2009, three years
after they had met in Kuala Lumpur in Aug 2006. Fatine
is 36 and a pre-op transgender.

28. MALAYSIA OBJECTED TO LGBT
RIGHTS IN ASEAN RIGHTS
CHARTER
Written by Clara Chooi in The Malaysian Insider on
Tuesday, 27 Nov 2012:
• Datuk Seri Najib had objected to inclusion of LGBT right
when signing ASEAN’s first human rights charter recently.
• Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin saying, Malaysia could not accept
principles that go againts the order of human nature.
•

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