Saknarin Marnyaporn better known by the names Nong Poy or Treechada is a Thai

Thai people

The Thai people, or Siamese, are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southern China. Their language is the Thai language, which is classified as part of the Kradai family of...

 actress and model. Assigned male at birth, Poy underwent sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery

Sex reassignment surgery is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble...

at age 17.

Biography

As a child, Poy knew she was a girl, but in front of her parents, she had to pretend and live as a male. She felt disgusted by her "male" genitals, so at the age of 17, she underwent sex reassignment surgery and since then, she has said that she feels as if she has been reborn.

At age 19, Poy won the Miss Tiffany's 2004 and Miss International Queen 2004.