ABCNews.Go.com – By Russell Goldman
Cast Out of Their Homes and Unable to Find Work, Many Transgender Young People Turn to Prostitution to Buy Illegal Hormones
Kenyatta can’t talk long; she has a date.
“We call them dates,” she said of the men with whom she has sex for money.
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Anxiously, she brushes her long dark hair off her slight shoulders and out of her smoky eyes.
Once you know that Kenyatta, 22, was born a male, her large hands and Adam’s apple seem obvious. But at first — and even second — glance, there is little to suggest that she wasn’t a girl her entire life.
She prostitutes herself “about twice a month” in order to buy the black market hormones that enlarge her breasts, raise the pitch of her voice and keep hair from growing on her face.