Summary of right to employment
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
The Commission had interviewed 64 respondents who were working full
time, 45 working part time, 10 respondents who were unemployed and 5
respondents who were still students.
A total of 21 respondents had been working more than one part time job
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, often because of denial of
mainstream jobs due to their gender expression
35 of the respondents were not allowed to express their authentic gender
identity from their employers.
53 respondents stated that their colleagues tend to ask Inappropriate and
intrusive questions to them.
Respondents shared that when they dealt with customer at a workplace,25
of them faced sexual harassment.
With regard to the experiences of the respondents who were sex workers,
28 respondents stated they faced violence from clients/customers, 25 of
them from authorities and 29 of them from members of public.
D.
RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE
145.
This section covers the right to healthcare of the transgender persons, the
respondents were asked on the types of healthcare services that they seek
for, what type of healthcare needs and any specific healthcare needs that they
were required and their experience when seeking for healthcare services.
146.
According to World Health Organisation (WHO), the right to health “includes
access to timely, acceptable, and affordable health care of appropriate
quality”107 and the right to the highest attainable standard of health “requires a
set of social criteria that is conducive to the health of all people, including the
availability of health services, safe working conditions, adequate housing and
nutritious foods”108. The transgender persons are not exclusion from the right
to healthcare.
147.
Besides from the general common health needs such as treatment for physical
and mental illness, pain and disease, the transgender person may require
other specific healthcare needs due to their gender dysphoria. The gender
affirming health services for transgender persons covers all the medical
supports needed for their medical transition process which include hormone
replacement therapy, gender affirmation surgery, access to counselling and
etc. According to the 7th version of the Standards of Care for the Health of
Transsexual, Transgender, and gender Non-conforming People published
107 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs323/en/ accessed in 5 December 2017
108 Ibid
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