I have been a sex worker. I have seen friends OD and die. I have seen a friend murdered because she was working the streets. My Mexican friend ended up working the streets. She got busted, tested positive for HIV, and was deported to Mexico, where she had no one.
Sex work is, and has long been, a major source of income for throwaway kids.
Not a woman. Not a man. Not even a queer man or woman. Despite this fact of life, the trans community almost never mentions this disowned sector of itself. Far too often, the poverty experienced by many transsexual women as a result of the stigma attached to their very being goes unacknowledged.