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“When they saw me dancing at birthday parties as a kid, they already knew!” declares Kathryn, a transpinay (Filipina transwoman) who engages in sex work to make a living. Despite Southeast Asia’s rich history of non-binary people, modern Philippine law refuses to recognize even those who undergo sexual reassignment surgery, making the day-to-day lived realities for trans people precarious and invisible. This drove Kathryn, and others like her, into the illegal practice of online sex work to earn a living, express her true identity, and find love.
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Radics, G.B. (2023). Introduction. In: Radics, G.B., Ciocchini, P. (eds) Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17918-1_1
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