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Essay About Transgender Community In Malaysia

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The truth behind the face
Everyone has an identity; it’s a thing that influences everything in our lives. It impacts how we act like or look like every day. Nowadays, most of the countries define gender based on the physiological conditions (breasts, sexual organs etc) at birth. Nevertheless, there are around 70 thousand people living in Malaysia with a prescribed identity (Slamah 210). These people who define themselves as transgender are afraid of being who they are in Malaysia due to several unfair treatments against the minority group. The root challenges faced by the transgender community in Malaysia are lack of the legal protection, poor health access and employment discrimination. First and foremost, transgender community …show more content…

Transgender people who known as ‘mak nyak’ in Malaysia are receiving bad treatment as in bad service compared to others. Health workers have a different perspective towards transgender people and their body, in a manner that they are being forced to engage with transgender patients. For example, in the government health care center, health workers prefer not to interact with transgender patients. In addition, transgender patients are also experiencing an inappropriate act by the doctors for own intervention or understanding transgender genetic parts. “I had one case of a doctor who checked my pelvic area even though I was there for something completely unrelated,” said a transman in Kuala Lumpur called Ron (Zurairi par6). According to the report by international watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW), the transgender community faces even more serious discrimination in government facilities, made worse by the fact that most of them have to turn to private healthcare (Zurairi par2). Although receiving care from private healthcare would allow transgender people to get a better treatment, but due to stigma institutional and discrimination, they are struggling even to afford the costly bill. Hence, poor health care access has been a huge problem for the transgender community in Malaysia; to get a sufficient and vital healthcare

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