People who experience human trafficking have been forced into the sex trade or other labor sectors with no choice. Whereas consensual adult sex workers choose sex work to make a living. Some people work in the sex trades, including migrants, and transgender and gender nonconforming individuals, because of circumstance, as many work options in the formal economies are unavailable. Some sex workers love their work, some hate it, and some feel neutral about it, just as people working in any other job.  Sex work is neither all good nor all bad, just like any other job.
What makes sex work different from other work is the deep stigma associated with exchanging sexual or erotic services for money or something else of value. This is coupled with the deep stigma around sex and sexuality in general that many people have internalized. These stigmas are evident as demonstrated by the fact that many anti-trafficking advocates call for the abolition of sex work to curb human trafficking, while never suggesting the abolition of farm labor, domestic labor, or other labor sectors where human trafficking occurs even more frequently.
Sex workers are people of every gender, race, religion, economic and educational background, age, and sexuality.  People in the sex trades need their human rights respected, protected, and fulfilled, not rescue.  Raids, arrest, criminalization and rescue/missionary/savior/paternalistic mentalities and policies are all harmful to both sex workers and survivors of human trafficking.  To both address trafficking and protect the rights of sex workers requires building trust and relationships with individuals in the sex trades. What is needed are community–based, trauma–informed, and human rights–based responses that work alongside individuals in the sex trades and support those vulnerable to human trafficking, rather than raids or other forms of traumatic and often violent state interventions.