This article uses the gender-neutral “trans people” as though this impacts all trans people equally - but I’m curious whether trans men (and transmasc enbies) turn to sex work in similar numbers as trans women (and transfems)?
It would also be interesting to know what other relevant factors are, like educational attainment and other markers of economic class. It’s telling that racial minorities are more represented.
It seems to me that this might just be about sex work more broadly, which is something people in poverty turn to for survival (usually women, but I know of gay men who have turned to sex work for survival, too). This is often the left-wing justification for a program of universal basic income, as it might give lots of people, but women especially, freedom from this kind of exploitative survival work.
This article uses the gender-neutral “trans people” as though this impacts all trans people equally - but I’m curious whether trans men (and transmasc enbies) turn to sex work in similar numbers as trans women (and transfems)?
It would also be interesting to know what other relevant factors are, like educational attainment and other markers of economic class. It’s telling that racial minorities are more represented.
It seems to me that this might just be about sex work more broadly, which is something people in poverty turn to for survival (usually women, but I know of gay men who have turned to sex work for survival, too). This is often the left-wing justification for a program of universal basic income, as it might give lots of people, but women especially, freedom from this kind of exploitative survival work.