DC Police launch harassment campaign against transgender sex workers

Early AM on Sun, August 21, the entire area of K and L streets between N Cap st and 1st st NE was overrrun with cops while transgender sex workers were forced to move east to a temporary area to meet their clients. Presumably their clients knew to check further east if the normal area was overrun with pigs, as this is the direction cops have been pushing them since condos took over the old 5th and K area. Out of state cars seen parked near places like NPR radio were harassed with fake "crime alert" parking tickets whose real purpose no doubt was to warn that license plates were being logged by cops. The broken piles of car window glass indicating an active car break-in zone have never been evident in that area, thus casting doubt on any actual "crime" problem concerning anything other than sex work.

In the past few years more than a few upscale stores and offices have risen around the 1st st NE area, so most likely some kind of well-heeled "community leaders" have met with police to discuss getting rid of transgender sex workers who have few other options for getting funds to buy groceries. Employment discrimination against transgender people is still a vicious fact of life, and probably both the employers and the yuppies in sex work areas would prefer that trans people did not exist at all.