The perception of public towards transgender discriminations: a study in Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) / Elvina Darius and Azreena Jumatli

Transgender carry the meaning of those person whose gender are different than the original identity, behaving differently than their assigned sex at birth. Those that are categorized under transgender can be understood by their internal sense of either being female, male, or anything else. They also...

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Main Authors: Darius, Elvina, Jumatli, Azreena
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74801/1/74801.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74801/
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Summary:Transgender carry the meaning of those person whose gender are different than the original identity, behaving differently than their assigned sex at birth. Those that are categorized under transgender can be understood by their internal sense of either being female, male, or anything else. They also have gender expressions that differ than others. The way they carry themselves through their voice, hairstyle, body language, and behavior are very contradicted from normal gender identity. Society's perception, awareness, openness, and knowledge towards them are constantly changing and keep growing. This research is done to study the association between public awareness and rights to be employed among the transgender, the association between public awareness and rights to receive appropriate healthcare services among the transgender and the association between public awareness and rights to receive proper education among the transgender. All data are collected through primary and secondary data, in which, the primary data is in the form of questionnaire to be distributed to the target respondents and secondary data are in the forms of trusted sources, such as research study, e-journals and journal articles which focus on the issue of transgender discriminations. 100 staffs from Legal Department, Health and Urban Services Department, Human Resource Development Department, Landscape Department and Procurement and Tender Contracts Unit will be selected to become the respondents from the Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK), in which, the staffs comprised of married couples and single people that have been working from three until 21.