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 Report On Transgender Persons In KL And Selangor | 51