Trans Singapore: Comments & Mediagraphy

Part 1: to the first sex-change operation in 1971

Part 2: 1972-now

Comments and Mediagraphy

The new Bugis Junction

Comments

Is there a Chinese original of Cries From Within? Leana Lo calls it “Cries in the Dark” and the Swan Project interviewers call it “Voices from Within”.

As the Chinese practice is to place the family name first and the English language practice to place it last, e.g. Tsoi Wing Foo is sometimes Wing Foo Tsoi, I was not sure for some persons which is their surname.

Most mentions of money I take to be in Singapore dollars.

The rise of Singapore from being an exploited colony to being the 3rd richest country in the world by GDP (PPP) per capita is an amazing story. In the 1950s and 1960s the Singapore trans women were almost all non-op in that they could not afford the travel and medical costs to go elsewhere. Nowadays they have choices that they can afford.

National Service to be fair should be for both genders. Better still it should not exist, and the armed forces should be all-volunteer.

Mediagraphy

• F D Ommaney. Eastern Windows. Longmans, 1960.

• James Clavell. King Rat. Martin Joseph, 1962.

• Noel Coward. Pretty Polly Barlow and other stories. Heinemann, 1964.

• Bryan Forbes (dir & scr). King Rat, with George Segal, Tom Courtney, James Fox, Denholm Elliot, John Mills. US 134 mins BW 1965. IMDB

• Guy Green (dir). A Matter of Innocence/Pretty Polly. Scr: Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall from a story by Noel Coward, with Hayley Mills and Trevor Howard. UK 102 mins 1967. IMDB

• Yeo Toon Joo, Betty L Khoo & Lee Chiu San. “They are Different”. New Nation (Singapore), July 24-31, 1972.

• Paul Theroux. Saint Jack. Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

• Rolf Olsen (dir) Shocking Asia, with Ingeborg Steinbach and S S Ratnam. Hong Kong/West Germany 94 mins 1974. Includes footage of a Singapore sex change operation. IMDB

• Peter Bogdanovich (dir). Saint Jack. Scr: Howard Sackler, Peter Bogdanovich based on the novel by Paul Theroux, with Ben Gazzara & Denholm Elliot. US 112 mins 1979. IMDB

• Tsoi Wing Foo & Kok Lee Peng. “Female Transsexualism in Singapore: A Report on 20 Cases”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 14, 1980.

• Michael Blakemore (dir). Privates on Parade. Scr: Peter Nichols, with John Cleese, Dennis Quilley. UK 107 mins 1983. IMDB.

• Tsoi Wing Foo. “Sex reassignment surgery in the male transsexual” Journal of Hospital Medicine, 38, 1987.

• Tsoi Wing Foo, "The prevalence of transsexualism in Singapore”. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 78, 1988.

• W. F. Tsoi, E. H. Kua, L. P. Kok. Handbook of clinical psychiatry : a guide for medical students and family physicians. P G Publishing, 1989.

• Tsoi Wing Foo. “Parental influence in transsexualism”. Singapore Medical Journal, 31, 1990.

• Tsoi Wing Foo. “Developmental profile of 200 male and 100 female transsexuals in Singapore”. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 19, 1990.

• S. S. Ratnam, Victor H. H. Goh & Tsoi Wing Foo . Cries from Within: Transsexualism, Gender Confusion and Sex Change. Singapore: Longman, 1991.

• Tsoi Wing Foo. “Male and female transsexuals: a comparison”. Singapore Medical Journal, 33, 1992.

• Tsoi Wing Foo. “Follow-up study of transsexuals after sex-reassignment surgery”. Singapore Medical Journal, 34, 1993.

• Yonfan (dir) Bugis Street /Yao jie huang hou 妖街皇后 with Hiep Thi Le as Lien, Ernest Seah as Lola and Greg-O as Drago. Hong Kong 101 mins 1995. IMDB.

• Yonfan. Bugis Street : a movie book. Hong Kong: Far-sun Film co., 1995

• Koh Buck Song Koh. Bugis Street: The novel. 1995

• Roy Tan. “Bugis Street (film)”. The Singapore LGBT encyclopaedia Wiki. Online.

• Bob from Australia. “The sailor’s birthday present”. Yawning Bread, August 2002. Archive.

• “UK sailors visited singapore's bugis street for sex”. Fridae.asia, 1 Nov 2002. Online.

• Eric Lim, Suresh Menon & Ajay Singh (dir). Hidden Genders. Scr: Adrian Ong, with Nong Tum and others. Singapore National Geographic TV 47 mins 2003.

• Leona Lo. My Sisters, their Stories. Select Books, 2003.

• a reader. “Singapore transgender resources”. Transgender Map, December 2004. Online.

• Alex Au. “Singapore: A Woman With A Past.” Yawning Bread, July 2005. Archive.

• Russell Heng. “Where queens ruled! - a history of gay venues in Singapore”. Yawning Bread, August 2005. Archive.

• James Eckardt. Singapore Girl: A True Story of Sex, Drugs and Love on the Wild Side in 1970s Bugis Street. Monsoon Books, 2007.

• Jason Lundberg. “review: singapore girl by james eckardt”. Lundblog, Nov 18th, 2007. Online.

• Leona Lo. From Leonard to Leona. Lulu, 2007.

• Wong Kim Hoh. “Trans Singapore”. Straits Times, 6 September 2008. Online.

• Teh Yik Koon. “Excerpts from ‘Factors Determining Identity and the Status of Male-to-Female Transsexuals in Malaysia’ ” The Singapore LGBT encyclopaedia Wiki, 2008. Online.

• Icemoon. “The Real Shophouses of Bugis Junction”. Second Shot: Same place just different time, Jan 27, 2011. Online.

• Hun Ping. “ ‘Round About Midnight, Bugis Street”. The Hunter: location scouting in singapore’s filmic history, 14 Nov 2013. Online.

• Ben Slater. “Coming of Age: ‘Hollywood' in Singapore: Pt. 1 Pretty Polly AKA A Matter of Innocence, Guy Green, 1967/1968”. Clearly you've never been..., May 18, 2013. Online.

• “Our Interview with Dr Tsoi”. The Swan Project, October 14, 2014. Online.

• Alain Soldeville. Bugis Street. André Frère Éditions, 2015. 

• Paul Gallagher. “The Transgender Women of Singapore’s ‘Boogie Street’ ”. Dangerous Minds, 01.28.2015. Online.

• Kenneth Chan. Yonfan’s Bugis Street. Hong Kong University Press, 2015.

• Quen Wong (dir & scr). Some Women, with Quen Wong, Lune Loh and Sanisa. Singapore 71 mins 2021. IMDB.

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