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August 3, 2020

Protesters in New York Demand End to Discrimination and Anti-Trans, Anti-Sex Worker Laws
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In New York City, sex workers and their allies took to the streets
Saturday for the Black Sex Worker Liberation March and Vigil. Among
protesters' demands were the decriminalization of sex work and a repeal
of the so-called Walking While Trans ban, an anti-loitering and
anti-sex-work law that activists and rights groups say is
disproportionately used to attack trans people.

Madame Namio: "This work is the only work that has allowed me to regain
agency over a body I was taught to hate my whole life."



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