#ReadTheFullReport #LinkInBio https://bit.ly/3cVedrq Let’s learn together this #PrideMonth2020 @beautyforfreedom will share articles, recent studies and links to amazing organizations doing incredible work in the LGBTQ+ Communities. We’ll have a special podcast series dedicated to #Pride2020 as well. We’re accepting submissions and suggestions. We want to learn, support and send so much love out today and every day to our LGBTQIA family. We’re here for it! #WereHereForIt Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States (Sited by Journal of Human Trafficking 2020 Link in Bio) Ethnographic fieldwork conducted for 30 months between March 2017 and August 2019 in Los Angeles and New York City included in-depth interviews with sex workers and trafficked persons (n = 50), of whom 26 were trans, and key informants (n = 17) from law enforcement and social services. Most trans participants who reported exploitation did not self-identify as victims of trafficking nor were they identified by police or anti-trafficking organizations as victims. Law enforcement gatekeeping was identified by anti-trafficking advocates as a barrier to meeting the needs of trans clients because they were viewed as “less exploitable” than cisgender women. Discriminatory law enforcement practices resulted in the exclusion and hyper-criminalization of trans migrants and people of color who were profiled not only by gender, but also race/ethnicity and immigration status. Major constraints limiting research on trans people and trafficking include underreporting and gender misclassification by researchers and law enforcement agencies that do not disaggregate data beyond assigned sex at birth or legal sex on identity documentation (Farrell & Reichert, 2017). In exceptional circumstances when trans people are included in research on trafficking, they are often excluded from final analyses due to small sample sizes or assumptions about “exceptional vulnerability” (Boukli & Renz, 2018) and perceived lack of generalizability of their experiences to other victims. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBVrn-Wjr4b/?igshid=1q0u0jbcssu41
