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Experiences of discrimination in a healthcare setting may delay a sex workers willingness to seek medical care in the future. Refusing to seek medical treatment for seemingly minor medical issue may lead to issues becoming more serious, difficult to treat, or even life-threatening<ref name=":0">Roche, Kirsten, and Corey Keith. "[http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/43717067/How_stigma_affects_healthcare_access_for_transgender_sex_workers.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1478629573&Signature=0qcII64g5Us3XPeUVAl7CtP8tNE%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DHow_stigma_affects_healthcare_access_for.pdf How Stigma Affects Healthcare Access For Transgender Sex Workers."] ''British Journal Of Nursing'' 23.21 (2014): 1147-1152. ''CINAHL Plus with Full Text''. Web. 7 Nov. 2016.</ref>. |
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Revision as of 18:47, 8 November 2016
Transgender Prostitution
Transgender Prostitution refers to transgender peoples engagement in the sex industry and the performance of sexual services in exchange for money or other forms of payment[1]. The term transgender refers to a diverse population whose gender identity or expression differs from their assigned sex at birth[2]. Transgender people experience high degrees of discrimination and carry the risk of facing high HIV risks, poverty, and violence during their work.
HIV Risks
Sex workers have been shown to experience risk for various health conditions, including HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)[3]. Transgender sex workers (specifically transgender women) have a higher risk of carrying or contracting HIV[4].
Healthcare Service
Experiences of discrimination in a healthcare setting may delay a sex workers willingness to seek medical care in the future. Refusing to seek medical treatment for seemingly minor medical issue may lead to issues becoming more serious, difficult to treat, or even life-threatening[1].
Poverty and Unemployment
Despite engaging in higher risk activity transgender sex workers receive lower pay than other sex workers[4]. In addition to the laws used against male and female sex workers, laws prohibiting cross-dressing or impersonation of another sex are used to suppress their activity. There are no explicit legal protections on a federal level for transgender workers based on gender identity/expression and only 17 states and the District of Columbia offer these protections. This lack of legal protection places transgender workers in a position to have higher rates of unemployment and greater risk of poverty[5].
Violence
Participating in the sex industry comes with a higher risk of experiencing violence, [6][7]. Sex workers work in a variety of settings and are often open to exploitation, harassment, and physical and sexual abuse from managers, clients, and police[8]
References
- ^ a b Roche, Kirsten, and Corey Keith. "How Stigma Affects Healthcare Access For Transgender Sex Workers." British Journal Of Nursing 23.21 (2014): 1147-1152. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 7 Nov. 2016.
- ^ Coleman, Eli, et al. "Standards of care for the health of transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people, version 7." International Journal of Transgenderism 13.4 (2012): 165-232.
- ^ Operario, Don; Too, Soma; Underhill, Kristen (2008). "Sex Work and HIV Status Among Transgender Women: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 48 (1): 97–103. doi:10.1097/QAI.0b013e31816e3971.
- ^ a b Poteat, Tonia, et al. "HIV Risk and Preventive Interventions in Transgender Women Sex Workers." The Lancet, vol. 385, no. 9964, 2015., pp. 274-286doi:http://0-dx.doi.org.wncln.wncln.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60833-3.
- ^ "Transgender Workers at Greater Risk for Unemployment and Poverty".
- ^ Moorman, Jessica D.; Harrison, Kristen (2015). "Gender, race, and risk: intersectional risk management in the sale of sex online" (PDF). The Journal of Sex Research: 1–9.
- ^ Prunas, Antonio; Clerici, Alfredo Clerici; Guendalina, Gentile; Muccino, Enrico; Veneroni, Laura; Zoja, Ricardo (2015). "Transphobic Murders in Italy An Overview of Homicides in Milan (Italy) in the Past Two Decades (1993-2012)" (PDF). Journal of interpersonal violence. 30 (16): 2872–2885.
- ^ "Addressing the links between gender-based violence and HIV in the Great Lakes region" (PDF). UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. 2013.
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