The TGEU Sex Work Policy is the guide to our work in the field of sex work. Our policy was developed in consultation with our member organisations and other civil society organisations that focus on sex worker’s human rights to highlight the common concerns trans people and sex workers face in various contexts, along with the most pressing issues for trans sex workers.
Our Sex Work Policy was enthusiastically acclaimed and adopted by TGEU’s General Assembly on the 5th of June 2016 in Bologna, Italy at the 6th European Transgender Council.
TGEU supports the full decriminalisation of sex work.
Definitions
Sex work means that adult sex workers of all genders who are engaging in commercial sex have consented to do so (that is, are choosing voluntarily to do so), making it distinct from trafficking.
Full decriminalisation refers to an absence of any laws and forms of legal oppression that prohibit sex work itself or associated activities like the facilitation of sex work and the purchase of sexual services.
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