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Decriminalize Transgender Prostitution,urges Trans Advocates
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A new report on transgender sex work sponsored by the Red Umbrella Project, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Best Practices Policy Project urges policy makers and legislators to “repeal criminal laws for prostitution and related offenses." Building on data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, “Meaningful Work: Transgender Experiences in the Sex Trade” concludes that decriminalization is “essential to protect the safety of people in the sex trade and to combat HIV.”
The report finds that transgender people engage in the sex trade to forge a better socio-economic existence for themselves, to provide for their families, to find employment alternatives that do not expose them to the harsh discrimination that they may face in traditional workplaces, and to ameliorate high rates of joblessness and homelessness. Black transfeminine individuals are particularly impacted by these problems.
“For many transgender people, the sex trade can offer greater autonomy and financial stability compared to more traditional workplaces, with few barriers to entry,” the report says. But the study also maintains that participation in sex work has high costs, with often-fleeting autonomy and irregular financial security. Moreover, the largely unregulated sex trade can be dangerous, exposing sex workers to multifaceted harm from clients, from predators who seek to rob sex workers on the street, and from law enforcement officers, who seek to enforce zero-tolerance policies and “prostitution-free zones.”
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