Beautiful Boxer

Biopic of transgender Muay Thai boxer Parinya Charoenphol who pursued the sport to pay for her gender reassignment surgery. Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muay Thai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman. The movie chronicles her life from a young boy who likes to wear lipstick and flowers to her sensational career as a kickboxer - whose specialty is ancient Muay Thai boxing (moves which she can execute expertly with grace) - to finally confronting her own sexual identity, which leads to her sex change op. —theunraveler Based on the true life story of a Thai who wishes to have a sex change operation to become a woman. To pay for this, he enters the brutal world of Thai boxing, unnerving his opponents by performing a makeup application ritual before each fight. —dsb