Thinking now of the terrible #tsunami 20 years ago, i just had an unexpected realisation. In the early Oughties when i #transitioned [2004 - 2006], i used two separate Thai surgeons, for different surgeries, two separate trips [both 2006]. One was at #Chonburi, t'other at #Phuket. The latter is qed coastal, & whilst the former is not, it was a common practice that some of the patients before & after surgery during recovery once released from hospital, would stay at a hotel on the coast [then commute back to Chonburi for the checkups]. Thus, afaict, it is highly probable that, as an unknown statistic, a fraction of the people killed by that terrible event would have been #transitioning #transwomen recovering from their respective ops. Damn.