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"I've been Prostitute, Prostitute 1, Prostitute 2, Call Girl, Hooker, but at the same time, I felt limited. I felt like okay, what's next," Jazzmun, an actress, said in "Disclosure," referring to the number of times she was repeatedly cast as a sex worker because she's transgender.
The trope that all transwomen and trans femmes are sex workers is pervasive in popular media.
"GLAAD took a look at 134 episodes of television where a transgender character was brought on just to be a guest star character, and what we found in those portrayals was the most common profession shown for a transgender character was sex worker," Nick Adams, GLAAD director of trans media & representation, said in the film.
These tropes stems from how sex work is demonized in media and the fact that many trans femmes have been pushed into sex work because of a lack of workplace protections for transgender people and subsequent employment discrimination.