A transgender Thai model today showed off the Muay Thai costume she would have been wearing in Dubai were she not forced to fly home by airport officials because a different gender was listed on her passport.
Rachaya “Mix” Noppakaroon, first runner-up at the Miss Tiffany Universe pageant in 2014, said she was stuck nine hours Wednesday in Dubai immigration by officials who wanted to know why she looked female when her passport indicated she was male – and all about her boobs.
“I went into a room and when I handed in my passport, they asked me why does it say I am male?” she wrote.
After nine hours of questioning, Rachaya said she was forced to return to Thailand because her gender did not match her passport.
She described the entire ordeal as a “nightmare during which I’m fully awake.”
The model was scheduled to perform Muay Thai…
