Thus they contribute significantly to the welfare of the neighborhood. Scapegoating these women is both unfair and unproductive. It only alienates neighbors from one another. Instead of targeting these people for harassment, concerned neighbors would do better to try to create dialogue. This is the only true solution.
Many transgendered women come from background of parental abuse, particularly sexual abuse.
They were forced out of their parent's home in early adolescence as soon as their bodies began to masculinize from puberty. In this writer's opinion, prostitution and other sex work is harmless in and of itself, at worst. At best it is fun and exciting and creative. In many ancient sex positive societies, sex work was considered an important, valid and even noble occupation. They will still not eradicate it, because some transgendered people like non-transgendered people, truly enjoy it and will chose to practice it no matter what.