Publications by authors named "Yufu Iguchi"
Transgender topics are controversial in Malaysia and trans people are subject to stigma and persecution. In this study context, the transition is defined as a phase where a person changes from one gender to the gender that an individual chooses. Little is known about the transgender people's transition experiences in Malaysia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: There are no national data on hormone use by trans women in Malaysia. The objective of this study was to determine hormone use and the associated factors by trans women in Malaysia.
Methods: This mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) study (JPEC 03-18-0021) was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire among trans women who used hormones and recruited using snow ball sampling method.
Background: Despite the clear stand taken by the United Nations (UN) and other international bodies in ensuring that female genital cutting (FGC) is not performed by health professionals, the rate of medicalization has not reduced. The current study aimed to determine the extent of medicalization of FGC among doctors in Malaysia, who the doctors were who practiced it, how and what was practiced, and the motivations for the practice.
Methods And Findings: This mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) study was conducted from 2018 to 2019 using a self-administered questionnaire among Muslim medical doctors from 2 main medical associations with a large number of Muslim members from all over Malaysia who attended their annual conference.
Objective: This study aimed to understand the reasons for the practice by the Muslim community, traditional practitioners and the views of religious scholars as well as the medicalisation trend of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC).
Design: This is a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) study. A questionnaire was created and used by three trained research assistants for the quantitative component of the study.