The Fight for Trans Rights

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A 16x9 (Canadian Global TV program) gives a view into the difficult life that trans experience in North America. Quite sad, and despite the increasing acceptance because of celebrities like Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox, many still face discrimination and death.

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In Canada if you live in a smaller city there is not much community or support. Most transgenders will move to Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver.
The majority moving to Toronto due to the large trans and gay community there.

Life on the street in Canada and Detroit is totally different as the sex workers are at least tolerated in Canada. In the US it is not tolerated and treated as totally illegal, so it is even more underground and dangerous.
However in both countries many of the ladyboys have gotten off the streets and work on the internet mostly. You will still see some working the street but it is not the same as 10 years ago when the majority of Trans had to work on the street to make any money. Mostly it is just the homeless and drug addicted that you will see on the street. Still nowdays even the most down and out person probably still has a smart phone and can place ads online, or be contacted by clients.

In Canada with the combination of minimal police enforcement and internet advertising, the sex work trade is much safer than it use to be. There is still incidents but most of these are the homeless and drug addicted on the street and really alot of this violence is directly due to the drugs and conflicts with each other.
Sex workers on the street are always the targets of violence and may trans workers slightly more. Today the number of TG street workers in Toronto is very small and there just isn't the opportunity for attacks like the drive by shooting in that video. In years past the large number of workers in the area would generate more beatings and other violent attacks, not to mention the trannies fighting with each other all night. Still most of the Toronto incidents in that video were from many years ago and not really what's happening so much anymore.

However Toronto is strange in that they let the Tranny stroll exist behind an elementary school and on a residential street beside many nice houses, It's not seedy neighbourhood at all. It could be considered to be part of the gay village but still I cannot see why they let this continue there. Over the years there has been tremendous conflicts with the residents. Here is a video about that where I cannot understand the attitude of the police where they say the trans sex workers have the right to be there. To me it's a residential street behind a school and not an optimal location. It is behind the playground of a school and the track is always covered with needles, condoms, drug wrappers and discarded drug paraphernalia. It's not only a stroll but a drug pick up location also, I believe. Anyway, this video also features Ivana from that first video where she is supporting the sex workers there. This video still is older so things have slowed even more at this location in Toronto.