• • • • • Bullying incidences is a common experience faced by the transgender persons due to their gender identity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation. More than half of the respondents shared that felt uncomfortable with the binary school uniforms. Toilet issue facing by the respondents were raised due to their gender identity. Sexual violates incidences such as unwanted sexual gestures, language, image, molestation or unwanted touching, threat of rape and rape or coerced sex occurred in educational institutional. The perpetrators of the incidences were from peers and teachers or lecturers. The study also show that the educational system lacks any redress mechanism which transgendered children trust, to discuss the unique challenges faced by them. b. Right to Employment • SUHAKAM interviewed 64 respondents who were working full time, working part time (45), unemployed (10) and students (5). • 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. c. Right to Healthcare • With regard to the level of satisfaction of medical health services, it was found that the respondents were satisfied with services provided by the community clinic runs by NGOs. • Respondents were unconformable with the placement of the trans women were mostly in male wards and the placement of trans men were in female wards. It shows that the placements of ward were according to their sex assigned at birth. 4 | Report On Transgender Persons In KL And Selangor