Cecilia Gentili

So it was more like organically came with the idea of being trans, the idea of being a sex worker.

So it was like, you know, for me, it was like, this is...

what the life of a trans person is, and I am trans, and this is what I have to do.

It was also a lot of reaffirmation with sex work.

You know, when you have like all this, the rest of the world telling you that

you know, that you are wrong, that you are an abomination, that, you know, your body is a mistake.

And at the same time, you have all these people paying for your body and for your time.

So it was very reaffirming.

The money was good.

I work a lot, you know, I make decent money in the streets, enough to survive.

But not enough to go ahead with certain surgeries that I wanted.

You know, money was enough to pay rent and to eat.

But I wasn't making money.

My transition wasn't going where I wanted to go.

My life wasn't going where I wanted to go and interactions with police and overall, you know, really...

really, really bad experiences.

Sex work was so heavily policed in Argentina, a group of trans women from the city that I'm from were given a reparations pension for all the suffering that the law enforcement made them go through.

I hope that gives you an idea of what kind of oppression we were going through at the time.

It is like, you know, trans women receiving a reparations pension.

That's how bad the government feels about the treatment that they gave us.