18 – 29 years old
30 – 39 years old
40 – 49 years old
50 – 59 years old
60 years old and above
Table 35: Age group and type of accommodation of the respondents
1. Own house
1
4
0
1
0
2. Renting a house
4
7
8
4
0
3. Renting a room
11
14
5
3
2
4. Homeless
1
1
1
2
1
5. Living rent free with a friend or relative
0
3
2
1
0
6. Living with family
20
3
0
1
0
Item
192.
25 respondents (23 trans women, one trans man and intersex persons
respectively) shared that they had been denied room or house due to their
gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation. Besides that,
another reason was based on stigmatization that the property could be used
for promiscuous activities by the transgender persons. Several respondents
shared that discrimination happened immediately after face to face meeting,
whereas before a physical meet up, house owners did not express any
problems. Some house owners refused to rent the properties because they
were transgender persons.
193.
At the same time, 7 respondents who were trans women stated that they had
to pay higher rent because of their gender identity. In one instances, a trans
woman was told by a house owner that she will need to pay higher rent since
she alleged that the property would be used for “sex trade activities”.
194.
10 of the respondents shared that they had experienced difficulties to apply
for public housing due to their gender identity. A trans man shared that he
felt uncomfortable in filling up the house application forms, which will lead to
exposing his gender identity. Therefore, he withdrew the house application.
195.
Another trans man also shared that he experienced difficulty to purchase joint
property with his partner due to the stricter lending guidelines, as the financial
institution preferred married couple instead of people living in partnership.
196.
31 respondents shared that they experienced violence from their neighbours
or people in their neighbourhood because of their gender identity and gender
expression including the following:
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