Many in society already incorrectly fear that sex workers spread disease. Using these laws to arrest people living with HIV whips up fear against sex workers, transgender people and men who have sex with men.
High Income Countries Dialogue on HIV, 2011

Sex work is about survival... We are struggling as transgender women to make ends meet and to survive in today's world where we are misunderstood.
The Washington Post, November 8, 2008

Before I'm transgender, before I'm a sex worker, before I am anything,
I'm human... I have rights just like anyone else.
The Red Umbrella Diaries, 2012

Transgender sex workers are now suffering the effects of the silence about what works to prevent and treat HIV.
Get Yr Rights, 2015