IN 2004 I INTERVIEWED EVA, A TRANSCENDER former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette hair, stylish black glasses, and simple but chic clothes. She told me that her father had kicked her out of the family home after realizing that his son perceived himself as a woman, and his mother had accepted this. On the streets, Eva had begun to drink heavily and experiment with drugs. She quickly fell into sex work to survive, joining a world shared by other transgender youth. In the years that followed, many of her friends left for Mexico City, where life was hard, and some were HIV-positive when they returned. By then, several years had passed. Eva had ...

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