The Vakkali story is recounted in a number of texts and has several versions.
While in common Thai usage kathoey usually denotes a non-normative male, the term is occasionally used to denote a non-normative female and Thai dictionaries usually do not assign a determinate gender, whether male or female, to the term.
The above-cited scriptural references to penetrative homosexual sex i.
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He entered the order under the Elder and went with him to Savitthi.
I then consider traditional Thai accounts which propose that homosexuality arises as a kammic consequence of violating Buddhist proscriptions against heterosexual misconduct.