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Transgender inequality in Asia
Transgender individuals are often marginalized and encounter stigma and discrimination due to their sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions. The stigma is spread in society through the cultural and social atmosphere. Transgender is not discussed openly in Asian culture. Hence society remains conservative and non-supportive about it. This minority stress intensified and marginalized transgender’s identity, which manufactured reduce allowance to public service. Social exclusion and the lack of regulation and policy about health, employment, law construct transgender inequality in Asia society.

Social exclusion
Transgender individuals are usually subjected to enormous social weight to conceal their identity due to their social pressure. The environment is depressive to transgender’s visibility as it is considered abnormal. Asian government exhibits small resistance to social activism promoting transgender rights. Lost resources about such activism will not be published in mainstream media, and transgender individuals felt excluded in society and in their families. They hesitate to come out to their family because of the projected rejection.

Health
Transgender individuals are not categorized into the gender binary. Hence they are not covered by insurance and legal protection They are not protected by primary health care and refuse publicly funded gender-affirming health services. Transformation surgery in Asia is expensive but of low quality. It is even illegal or vanished in countries such as India. Transgender people then turn to use hormones for their transformation. However, inadequate training and knowledge in medical professionals failed to offer appropriate advice and assistance during the process. The surgery and hormone injection are likely to result in permanent injury or even death.

Besides physical health, transgender people confront mental health inequality as well. They experienced a high level of stress, which lead to a high rate of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation and behaviour. Since mental health awareness is not widespread in Asia, transgender individuals are declined access to mental health care.

Employment
It is difficult for transgender people to receive employment as official identification documents are required when entering the workplace, and they miss the relevant document. Job interviews eliminate most transgender individuals. Those who obtain an offer work in hostile surroundings and eventually decided to quit the job. Exclusion from mainstream occupations leads to their engagement in sex work as it becomes a means of income.

Law
Laws are constituted against transgender individuals and a barrier to equality. The government established laws that target transgender people and prevent them from benefiting in society. For instance, government regulation prohibited cross-dressing, and there is no restriction toward transgender discrimination. Public nuisance and vagrancy laws is used to unjustly abuse trans females in many parts of Asia, including Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal, Malaysia and the Philippines. Dedicated religious police are accused of arresting trans individuals under these laws in some nations, such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Restrictive public policy on utilizing the concept of legal gender places restrictions on one’s privacy and family life as well.