Lumpur or Selangor. 9/51 respondents said that they migrated because they
believed that they could receive stronger peer support. A trans woman also
shared that she migrated from her town to avoid bringing shame to her family
due to her gender identity and gender expression.
86.
As for the ethnicity, Malays represented the major ethnic of respondents (40)
and followed by Indian (24), and Chinese (23). Respondents from mixedrace parents comprised of 2 ethnically mixed Malay and Chinese, 1 each for
ethnically mixed Indian and British, ethnically mixed Chinese and American and
lastly ethnically mixed Indian and Chinese.
Table 2: Ethnicity composition of respondents
Ethnicity
Frequency
a. Malay
40
b. Indian
24
c. Chinese
23
d. Sikh (Punjabi)
2
e. Melanau
2
f.
Iban
1
g. Bidayuh
1
h. Serani
1
i.
Peranakan Baba & Nyonya
1
j.
Mixed-race parents
5
Note: Frequency means number of respondent
87.
In terms of religion and faith, the respondents were mostly Muslim (45) followed
by Hindu (18), Buddhist (14), Christian (9), Taoism (1), believed in karma (1), the
rest (12) were either agnostic, atheist, free thinker or refused to state his/her
religion.
88.
Based on the study, 13 respondents stated that they had physical disabilities
which includes, 5 with visual disability (blurred vision due to refractive error
or lose one eyesight), 4 each for physical disability that restricts mobility and
hearing disability (lack of hearing) as shown in the table 3 below.
Table 3: Type of physical disabilities
Item
40
Frequency
1. Visual disability
5
2. Physical disability that restricts mobility
4
3. Hearing disability
4
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