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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Data shows that the enforcement of sex work laws disproportionately impacts communities of color, gay and transgender people, people with disabilities, immigrants, and people with criminal convictions.

Furthermore, a growing body of research indicates that the criminalization of sex work leads to sex workers facing extreme stigma, systematic exclusion, violence and discrimination. These challenges create an environment in which individuals trading sex have difficulty accessing health services and information, experience various human rights abuses, and decline to seek protection from the police even when in grave danger.[/quote]

Sure, but data does NOT show that this bill will decrease the impact on vulnerable people.  There are plenty of things a thoughtful legislator could do short of completely upending the system with absolutely unknown unintended consequences.  And as a community member, at a minimum I need to know that this will not result in open street prostitution everywhere in my neighborhood.

The vulnerability of poor & marginalized people in DC is terrible; but we need to think through actual solutions, not slogans.  [/quote]

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