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    LolaFalanasLongAssLegsTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 3:22pm

    I feel like I’m profiled for prostitution because I am a transgender woman.

    Indeed. I used to see cops stop trans women on Santa Monica in LA on my way to work. There was a late night donut shop where women would hang out not because they were sex workers but because where they were staying it was safer to sleep during the day.

    Hopefully, Albany can pass those bill.

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    weapon-a the first try suffers no trollsTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 5:53pm

    While decriminalization would be a good first step, I’d argue it doesn’t go nearly far enough.

    Removing one category of crimes a cop can threaten to charge a woman with doesn’t address all the others. It also doesn’t address the well known intimidation technique colloquially known as “a good old fashioned ass whippin”.

    Until cops are held to reasonable, rational standards of ethics, with REAL consequences for having broken them, all the other reforms won’t amount to much. I still don’t understand wtf the coffee house barista is held more accountable than a cop.

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    LoveHealsTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 7:50pm

    This is very disturbing. Black trans women are already targeted and persecuted. To be coerced sexually (essentially raped) by a cop or be potentially targeted for murder for “snitching” on drug dealers? What the hell kinda choices are those?

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    My KinjaTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 3:44pm

    Let’s talk more about this ratting for cash program...

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    JadeTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 11:21pm

    Even in 2019, it’s still, in effect, illegal to not be cisgender in most parts of the country,(and most of the world) even in allegedly “Liberal and progressive” places like NYC. Trans media visibility hasn’t seemed to help this situation much.

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    RobbTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 4:27pm

    Im still lost at how in the year of our Lord 2019...that sex work is a crime?

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    mrs oh'pleaseTerrell Jermaine Starr
    5/08/19 8:48pm

    But how is decriminalizing sex work going to protect them...when the same system still blames all women for being raped. I honestly don’t get how new laws will change rapist & rape apologists. I only see the gov’t trying to decriminalize it...so they can get their tax money. If anything the men in positions of power will rejoice because they won’t have to worry about their mugshot being flashed for solicitation. And will probably rape the sex workers vs paying them like they used to because there will no longer be a law to hide from.

    If it saves an innocent traffiking victim from being sent to years in jail for being forced into prostitution I pray that it helps them escape that hell on Earth.

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      ByeFelicia2022mrs oh'please
      5/08/19 10:38pm

      You are referring to a Nevada model which is bad because it empowers brothel owner; legalization restricts independent sex workers and often still creates categories of “ criminalized workers” and legalized worklers”

      Decriminalization: removing criminal laws around sex work 

      New York has a rape shield law in place. If you are charged with prostitution within last 3 years it prevents law coverage!

      Loitering for the purpose of prostitution:

      Primarily target target trans community members for waiving at cards, standing on the street corners, wearing “short skirts”

      94% of people arrested for loitering for the purpose of prostitution in NY are black women, most of them are trans. 

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      Massiebmrs oh'please
      5/08/19 11:07pm

      Why should men have their mugshots taken at all if sex work is legal?

      Rape and sex are different.  Educate yourself.

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