
Florentina:
There's no such thing as transphobia though.
You mean in life in general or in the story?
In the story Kim is often perceived as a guy because of her gender expression, and is sometimes called a 'tom' because of that (which she doesn't necessarily identify as, sometimes she does, most of the time she doesn't). In Thailand 'tom' is sort of a gender as well as an orientation. Tom-dee relationships aren't really considered lesbian, but also not really straight. It's kind of vague and ambiguous and hard to translate into a different culture. So whether what the character Kim experiences in the story is transphobia or homophobia is also a bit vague and ambiguous and hard to translate into a different culture, which is why I put the /.
If you mean there is no such thing as transphobia in life in general you can stop interacting with me forever from now on. I am nonbinary transgender and I got a nice dose of conversion therapy PTSD for the trouble, so that's not an opinion I care to engage with. I can just pretend you don't exist and you can do the same for me.