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They become sex workers because they become homeless.

Almost all minors who are homeless on their own do so because of unstable home life. LGBTQ children are more likely to face unstable home lives.

They're not targeted because they're LGBTQ. They become available to sex work because they're homeless (because they're LGBTQ).

And very few cities have appropriate services for homeless minors on top of all that, so they legitimately often have nowhere to go.

I’ve worked with our local homeless coalition on and off for several years (especially with laws like McKinney-Vento in effect) and unaccompanied minors are the largest underserved population in most areas. Occasionally you’ll have places for them if they become wards of the state, but a lot of those facilities have long, long waitlists.

And yes, it’s not uncommon for them to be become victims of trafficking and sexual violence in general as a result.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:58 am to BluegrassBelle

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Occasionally you’ll have places for them if they become wards of the state, but a lot of those facilities have long, long waitlists.

They also don't have spectacular results.

Kids in foster care are so much more likely to face abuse, exploitation, etc. than kids in stable families.

The underlying issues creating this problem is the same thing that causes all of our larger datasets to look bad. We have a very large underclass who has developed an incredibly toxic culture of pathology. That pathology destroys and consumes, and it leads to disparate results across the board (education, violent crime, drug use, mental illness, etc.)

It's not an international cabal of government workers. That's just a mythos created for in/out identification.

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