119.
There were 32 respondents whom had taken up part time job due to financial
commitments. 24 of them were pursuing their own interest and 21 of them to
support their trans specific healthcare needs as listed in table 10 below:
Table 10: Reasons of taking up part time job
Number of
respondents
Item
120.
a. Own financial commitments (e.g. car loan, study
loan, rental, etc.)
32
b. Own interest (e.g. to pursue skills, talents and
interest [e.g. modeling, make-up artist, bridal, etc])
24
c. To support trans specific healthcare needs (e.g.
hormone replacement therapy, gender affirming
procedures and surgeries, etc.)
21
d. Family commitment (to support family members)
10
e. Proximity with friend (to be closer with friend)
7
As mentioned in table 9, sex worker was the second most frequent full
time job (20/64) and part time (15/45) job for the respondents. This shows
that many respondents had taken up sex work as their source of earnings.
The circumstances maybe due to the denial of employments or rejection of
application of respondents based on their gender identity as shown in table
11 below.
Table 11: Denial or rejection of employment
Item
1-5 times
6-10 times
11-15 times
16 - 20 times
More than 20 times
Not applicable
TW
TM
Intersex
36
4
1
52.2%
13.8%
50.0%
4
3
0
5.8%
10.3%
0.0%
2
1
0
2.9%
3.4%
0.0%
1
0
0
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
6
0
0
8.7%
0.0%
0.0%
20
21
1
29.0%
72.4%
50.0%
Note:
TW: Trans women (69 persons), TM: Trans men (29 persons), Intersex: 2 persons
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