Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor

Transgender is referred for those who wish to be of the opposite sex from which they must exhibit strong and persistent cross-gender identification. they can be male-to-female transgender or female-to-male transgender. In Malaysia, the local term for male-to-female transgender (MTF) is maknyah,ponda...

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Main Author: Draman, Samsul
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling iium-432972015-06-11T02:13:19Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/43297/ Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor Draman, Samsul BL Religion R Medicine (General) Transgender is referred for those who wish to be of the opposite sex from which they must exhibit strong and persistent cross-gender identification. they can be male-to-female transgender or female-to-male transgender. In Malaysia, the local term for male-to-female transgender (MTF) is maknyah,pondan or bapok. The terms claimed by this community themselves. Being labeled as sexual deviants and generally discriminated by the society, the majority of the maknyah do not get a decent job. Thus, many of them end up in the sex trade. In a 2002 study on 507 maknyah, it found that 92% of the respondents had received payment for sex, even though only 54% claimed they were sex workers. Thus, they are at the high risk for contracting Human Immunodeficiency (HIV) and later on predisposed to developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 2015-05-13 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/43297/1/trans-sexual_-_role_of_primary_care_doctor.pdf Draman, Samsul (2015) Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor. In: 18th Family Medicine Scientific Conference 2015, 13-16 May 2015, Kuala Terengganu. (Unpublished) http://conference2015.fms-malaysia.org/
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Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor
description Transgender is referred for those who wish to be of the opposite sex from which they must exhibit strong and persistent cross-gender identification. they can be male-to-female transgender or female-to-male transgender. In Malaysia, the local term for male-to-female transgender (MTF) is maknyah,pondan or bapok. The terms claimed by this community themselves. Being labeled as sexual deviants and generally discriminated by the society, the majority of the maknyah do not get a decent job. Thus, many of them end up in the sex trade. In a 2002 study on 507 maknyah, it found that 92% of the respondents had received payment for sex, even though only 54% claimed they were sex workers. Thus, they are at the high risk for contracting Human Immunodeficiency (HIV) and later on predisposed to developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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title Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor
title_short Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor
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title_fullStr Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor
title_full_unstemmed Trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor
title_sort trans-sexual: role of primary care doctor
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/43297/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/43297/1/trans-sexual_-_role_of_primary_care_doctor.pdf
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