Experience as a Sex Worker …show more content…
I used the money I earned to pay for the health care my family couldn’t afforded. A year before beginning, at age 15, I just had started my transition. Merchant Street, where you could find trans women who were involved in street-based sex work, was a place were younger girls would hang out. These women, the ones involved in sex work, were the first trans women I ever met. This led to a belief that trans women and sex work interconnected, and while I perceived sex work as a rite of passage for a trans girl, I also knew it to be degrading, as portrayed by the media. This led to me finding a connection meaning being trans is being shameful (Mock,