Public Opinion of Transgender Rights in Malaysia

W. Luhur, T.N.T. Brown, J.N. Goh

This report presents information on public opinion about transgender people and their rights in Malaysia. The data has been analysed from the 2017 Global Attitudes Toward Transgender People survey, Malaysia panel, to provide new information on views toward transgender people, their rights, and their status in society. The Malaysian sample included panelists ages 16 to 64 who could complete a survey in Malay (see Appendix II for methodological details). Weights provided by Ipsos were used to improve the representativeness of the panel sample; however, the sample cannot be considered a probability-based sample or one that reflects the general adult population of due to the low internet penetration rate in Malaysia. The analytic sample included 500 participants. Below, we present weighted percentages and 95%