Arbeit macht frei, prostitution is empowering.
A clinic which receives NHS funding has been promoting prostitution as a way for transgender people to pay for their transition treatment, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Being a sex worker ‘can be useful and sometimes empowering’, according to a guide produced by CliniQ, a sexual counselling service for transgender people at King’s College Hospital in London. It adds: ‘It can help us pay for parts of our transition.’
Well of course it can; money is money. It can help pay for, or just pay for, anything; that’s how money works. Robbing banks can help pay for stuff too, unless you get caught.
Entitled Cruising: A Trans Guy’s Guide To The Gay Sex Scene, it advises readers to circumvent men-only restrictions at gay saunas by only performing sex acts ‘without others seeing your genitals’. Experts warned doing so would be committing the crime of sex by deception.
The pamphlet, which features crude sexual language including 22 uses of the words ‘f***’ and ‘f******’ in its 44 pages, focuses extensively on extreme sex acts, including sadomasochism and bondage.
What about the words f* and f**************? If you’re going to be coy about it just don’t mention the word.
‘Sex in public spaces is legal, so long as other members of the public cannot see you,’ it states. ‘Or so long as it is unlikely someone will come across you having sex. For example, having sex in a quiet woodland, away from the road or path, late at night.’
This pamphlet is for “trans guys,” so here it is telling women it’s a good idea to sell yourself in quiet woodlands away from roads late at night.
Kate Barker, managing director of the LGB Alliance, said: ‘We are astonished that a leaflet encouraging vulnerable girls to undertake criminally deceptive and breathtakingly risky sexual acts in gay men’s saunas and quiet woodlands is being endorsed by the NHS.
‘The fact that this ugly and demeaning guide wraps itself in the rainbow flag is an insult to all the same-sex attracted people who are as horrified as we are by the casual homophobia of CliniQ. Encouraging young women to believe they are really gay men is cruel, dangerous and deeply wrong.’
No no no it’s sex-positive and empowring.
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CliniQ seem to have (hastily?) removed this pamphlet from their website, but it has been preserved by the Wayback Machine.
Another pamphlet from CliniQ scrubbed from the web but preserved by the Wayback Machine is the companion work, ‘The Hook-up: A Trans Woman’s Guide to the Sex Club Scene’. On page two of the text it says:
Hm. Sex by deception is an offence in UK law: see the case of Gayle Newland.
I didn’t bother to read any more.
But it’s so VALIDATING!!!!