I will first say that the discrimination that the LGBTQ community faces in accessing what we would call “mainstream”, non-criminalized work often makes sex work the best option. It's a low-barrier entry.... We have a lot of anecdotal reports from workers saying that they experience a sense of community through doing sex work that they don't experience doing mainstream work.
However, there are ways this community is targeted and continues to be over-surveilled by the police force. For this reason, they are at risk for being sex workers, especially if a person is transgender, as they are targeted by police and subject to violence. There's a really interesting report that we can maybe send the committee about the violence that police commit with respect to sex workers.
I think that's all for now.