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Title: Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Post by: Shana A on April 22, 2009, 02:10:14 PM
Post by: Shana A on April 22, 2009, 02:10:14 PM
Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Posted in: New Zealand Daily News
By GayNZ.com Daily News Staff - 22nd April 2009
http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_7353.php (http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_7353.php)
Video footage showing transgender sex workers being verbally abused and threatened by a vigilante group aiming to "clean up" South Auckland is just one example of altercations happening on the streets every night, says the NZ Prostitutes Collective.
Since Prostitution Law Reform in 2003, the sex workers' activities are not illegal, but the Papatoetoe Reclaiming Our Streets (PROS) group is driving around the area verbally abusing and threatening to 'out' sex workers and their clients to their families.
Footage shown on TVNZ's Close Up programme this week showed a PROS leader shouting transphobic remarks at street workers
Posted in: New Zealand Daily News
By GayNZ.com Daily News Staff - 22nd April 2009
http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_7353.php (http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_7353.php)
Video footage showing transgender sex workers being verbally abused and threatened by a vigilante group aiming to "clean up" South Auckland is just one example of altercations happening on the streets every night, says the NZ Prostitutes Collective.
Since Prostitution Law Reform in 2003, the sex workers' activities are not illegal, but the Papatoetoe Reclaiming Our Streets (PROS) group is driving around the area verbally abusing and threatening to 'out' sex workers and their clients to their families.
Footage shown on TVNZ's Close Up programme this week showed a PROS leader shouting transphobic remarks at street workers
Title: Re: Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Post by: tekla on April 22, 2009, 03:57:01 PM
Post by: tekla on April 22, 2009, 03:57:01 PM
by definition, are not all 'sex workers' "At Risk"? (answer, yes they are.)
Title: Re: Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Post by: Mister on April 22, 2009, 06:07:46 PM
Post by: Mister on April 22, 2009, 06:07:46 PM
Quote from: tekla on April 22, 2009, 03:57:01 PM
by definition, are not all 'sex workers' "At Risk"? (answer, yes they are.)
IAWTC
Title: Re: Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Post by: Nicky on April 22, 2009, 07:28:55 PM
Post by: Nicky on April 22, 2009, 07:28:55 PM
South Auckland is considered one of the rougher areas of New Zealand.
I would not be surprised if the vigilantes are out while their 5 kids, all under 6 years old, are at home alone.
I would not be surprised if the vigilantes are out while their 5 kids, all under 6 years old, are at home alone.
Title: Re: Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Post by: tekla on April 22, 2009, 10:12:06 PM
Post by: tekla on April 22, 2009, 10:12:06 PM
I'm sure the roughest areas of New Zealand, and I'm sure they are hard places, even begin to compare with South Central in LA, or Bed-Sty in NYC, or the South Side of Chicago.
Title: Re: Auckland transgender sex workers at risk
Post by: Nicky on April 23, 2009, 08:21:22 PM
Post by: Nicky on April 23, 2009, 08:21:22 PM
absolutely not, and I am glad for it.