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SAITAMA, Japan — On stage, Kei Rodriguez looks and moves like a supermodel.
So it comes as no surprise that at least 10 ¥1,000 notes clipped between chopsticks are waved in her direction by appreciative guests of the Tres Bien Stage Club in this prefecture next to Tokyo.
The mostly middle-aged men and women who frequent the small club in the basement of a three-story building near the train station just love the way Kei moves.
And they don’t seem to care that up until five years ago, she was a man.
Kei is one of an estimated 100 transsexual Filipinos who have found acceptance and a decent living as entertainers in Japan.
Speaking with the Inquirer in a series of interviews, she said she was not as sure of feeling the same warmth among fellow Filipinos, many of whom look askance at people like her who believe that God made a mistake when she was born with a penis.
“Whenever I looked in the mirror, I felt that there was something wrong,” she recalled.
from inq7.net
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